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...

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 ...

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...

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...

This article analyses juridical discourses about Medically Assisted Reproduction (MAR) in Portugal, focusing specifically on the access of lesbians to this type of intervention. Empirical data refer to an exploratory research that combined the analysis of legislation with non-directive interviews to five judges from Family and Juvenile Courts of Law of the Northern Region of Portugal. One argue...

This paper examines lone motherhood through the lens of narrative identity. The data consists of the written life stories of seventeen Finnish lone mothers. The focus is on how lone mothers from two different age cohorts construct their identity around motherhood and lone motherhood. Thus historical context becomes an important element in the analysis.

This article proposes to explore the biographic accounts and everyday experiences of cisgender women who, for various reasons biopsychosocial conditions, are not mothers. From a feminist focus using qualitative methodology, it looks at complex nature experience who felt desire be mothers started out on quest motherhood. As result thematic analysis their accounts, we find that some have undergon...