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Diverse Pathways to Parenthood
From Narratives to Practice
Identifies problems in contemporary approaches to supporting diverse parents and looks at how to better serve them
Damien Riggs (Author)
9780128160237, Elsevier Science
Paperback, published 13 September 2019
194 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 1.4 cm, 0.32 kg
"With its focus in diverse and complex stories of pathways not only to parenthood but to production and kinship, this book reflects qualitative research in critical kinship studies at its finest. Drawing on decades of collaborative research in the new book and in a highly pedagogical fashion, Damien Riggs explores and explains urgent and timely topics for practitioners in reproductive and family care by pointing to both conventions and resistances in time of ?new? family forms and increasing use of ARTs. Equally importantly, by reading across several topics not usually analyzed together (such as infertility and reproductive loss, kinship with animals and across generations, straight and queer parenting), Riggs provides strong arguments for why attention not only to norms and deviances, but gender, sexuality and culture remain at the core of kinship and thus of critical kinship studies." --Ulrika Dahl, Professor of Gender Studies, Uppsala University
Diverse Pathways to Parenthood: From Narratives to Practice is a timely contribution to the study of reproduction and parenthood. Drawing on a wide breadth of projects, this book covers topics such as first time parents, donor conception, pregnancy loss, surrogacy, lesbian, gay and/or transgender parenting, fostering and adoption, grandparenting, and human/animal kinship. By presenting individual narratives focused on reproduction and parenthood, this book successfully translates empirical research into practical, applied outcomes that will be of use for all those working in the fields of reproduction and parenthood. Including recommendations for fertility specialists, educators, child protection agencies, reproductive counselors, and policy makers, Diverse Pathways to Parenthood: From Narratives to Practice is a vital new resource that will help guide practice into the future. As a contribution to the field of critical kinship studies, this book heralds new directions for the study of kinship, by revisiting as well as reimagining how we think about, research, and respond to a diversity of kinship forms.
1. Introduction: Reproducing our selves through stories Section I: Imaginations2. Planning for a possible future: Transgender people and fertility preservation3. Dreams of motherhood: Women in heterosexual couples planning for a first child4. Animal companions as kin: The significance of animals to women of diverse sexualities Section II: Interruptions5. Assisting reproduction: Heterosexual women’s experiences with infertility and fertility-related challenges6. A profound grief: Heterosexual women’s experiences of pregnancy loss7. Disenfranchised grief: Foster parent experiences of an unplanned placement termination Section III: Conceptions8. Donor conception: Creating new possibilities?9. Baby desired, travel required: Negotiating international commercial surrogacy arrangements10. Conception narratives: Journeys to family for adoptive and foster parents Section IV: Reproductions11. Wearing the pants?: Men’s accounts of becoming fathers12. An act of resistance: Lesbian women becoming parents13. Generations: Parent views on becoming grandparents14. Conclusion: From stories to practice
Subject Areas: Psychotherapy [MMJT], Clinical psychology [MMJ], Geopolitics [JPSL], Educational psychology [JNC], Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology [JMM], Child & developmental psychology [JMC]
