Chapter 12 To Parent or Not to Parent

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Chapter 12To Parent or Not to Parent

• Key Terms

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• total fertility rateNumber of births a typical
  woman will have over her lifetime.
• pronatalist biasView that having children is
  taken for granted, whereas not having children
  must be justified.

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• structural antinatalismValues, laws,employment
  policies and culture are inimical to children and
  disastrous for committed parents.
• paradoxical pregnancyThe more guilty and
  disapproving the young women are about premarital
  sex, the less likely they are to use
  contraceptives regularly.

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• abortionThe expulsion of the fetus or embryo
  from the uterus either naturally or medically.
• involuntary infertilityThe condition of wanting
  to conceive and bear a child but being physically
  unable to do so.

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• public adoptionsAdoptions through licensed
  agencies that place children with adoptive
  families.
• private adoptions Arranged directly between
  adoptive parents and the biological or birth
  mother, usually through an attorney.

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• closed adoptionThe adoptive and biological
  families have no communication and do not know
  one another's identities.
• open adoptionInvolves some direct contact with
  the biological and adoptive parents.

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• semi-open adoptionBiological and adoptive
  families exchange personal information but have
  no direct contact.
• disrupted adoptionsChild is returned to the
  agency before the adoption is final.

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• dissolved adoptionsChild is returned after the
  adoption is final.