marriage and having a family is along with consequences for each person and it provides the ground for developing identity and stability in his life. however, the separation of couples leads to various problems. this issue is along with far more complicated problems for women. the objective of this study is the better understanding of motherhood experiences of divorced women on the custody of t...

Second-generation Turkish immigrants make up an increasingly important segment of European labour markets. These young adults are entering the prime working ages and forming families. However, we have only a limited understanding of the relationship between labour force participation and parenthood among second-generation Turkish women. Using unique data from the Integration of the European Sec...

attitudes toward motherhood among societies change over time and fertility rates have fallen over.mothering and motherhood are the subjects of a rapidly expanding body of literature. set of this studies have a more macro focus in terms origions of motherhood and how it manifests in practice .in the current research in the base of parson's general theory of action (a.g.i.l), motherhood is c...

Addressing the particular context of China, this article has two aims. First, it offers reflections on possibilities and limitations using user-generated short videos (vlogs) as research data both methodologically ethically. We specifically explore potential centering vlogs a new format for examining motherhood behavior across online offline spaces. Secondly, adds to thematic literature (re)pro...

While poetic inquiry has been used to explore many aspects of motherhood, there less attention given pregnant, birthing, and immediately postpartum/fourth trimester embodiment. Here, we utilize poetry a topic that is understudied embodied experiences in the transition from pregnancy early motherhood. The poems present this article are part larger project exploring into In context project, 14 wo...

Our objective was to explore the ways in which displaced Karen mothers expressed emotions in narrative accounts of motherhood and displacement. We contextualized and analyzed interview data from an ethnographic study of birth and emotions among 15 displaced Karen mothers in Australia. We found that women shared a common symbolic language to describe emotions centered on the heart, which was als...

attitude toward motherhood among societies has changed over time and fertility rates have decreased. mothering and motherhood are rapidly expanding subjects of the literature of the context. a set of these studies has a more macro focus in terms of origins of motherhood and how it is manifested in practice. in the current research, based on parson's general theory of action (a.g.i.l), moth...

We contribute to feminist and gender scholarship on cultural notions of motherhood by analyzing the importance of motherhood among mothers and non-mothers. Using a national probability sample (N = 2,519) of U.S. women ages 25-45, we find a continuous distribution of scores measuring perceptions of the importance of motherhood among both groups. Employing OLS multiple regression, we examine why ...

in western countries we assist at the paradox that fertility is socially discouraged by a mindset that depicts fertility as a resource to exploit as late as possible. so, couples have high expectative about the advantages of delayed parenthood, but they are scarcely informed about its risks. scientific data suggests to anticipate the first pregnancy, but social pressures impose to wait, though ...

OBJECTIVES This paper intends to offer a theoretical insight into the myths of motherhood and how these myths can bear on the pathogenesis of postpartum depression. METHODS From a man's view motherhood is conceptualized as a necessary stage in the progress towards the attainment of femininity. This view is impersonal and external to the experience of motherhood. From a female perspective, mot...