Purewal Satvinder, van den Akker Olga
Department of Psychology, School of Life & Health Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, UK.
J Psychosom Obstet Gynaecol. 2007 Jun;28(2):79-86. doi: 10.1080/01674820701409918.
Parenting a child is one of the most universal, common and fundamental assumptions the majority of men and women make from an early age about their future. This common and historic assumption was challenged in modernized Western societies in the 1960s with the opportunities for 'mass control' of reproduction and then again supported in the 1980s with the advance of 'mass enhancement' of reproduction. This study qualitatively assessed the meaning of parenthood of post modern British individuals of different ages, gender, cultural backgrounds and parity. The results of the Interpretative Phenomenological Analyses revealed a number of common ideologies about parenthood, and a number of specific age, gender, parity and cultural differences in how individuals interpret and experience parenthood. These individual differences play a significant part in the quality of life of people gaining or losing the opportunity to parent, as has been discussed 'around the globe' by Frank van Balen and his team, and must be considered in counselling people faced with decisions which challenge their personal and universal assumptions to parent a genetically related child.
养育孩子是大多数男性和女性从早年起就对自己未来所做的最普遍、常见且基本的设想之一。这种常见且具有历史意义的设想在20世纪60年代的西方现代化社会中受到了挑战，当时出现了“大规模控制”生育的机会，而在20世纪80年代，随着“大规模提升”生育技术的进步，它又再次得到支持。本研究对不同年龄、性别、文化背景和生育状况的后现代英国个体的为人父母的意义进行了定性评估。解释现象学分析的结果揭示了一些关于为人父母的共同观念，以及个体在如何诠释和体验为人父母方面存在的一些特定的年龄、性别、生育状况和文化差异。正如弗兰克·范·巴伦及其团队在“全球范围内”所讨论的那样，这些个体差异在获得或失去为人父母机会的人们的生活质量中起着重要作用，在为面临挑战其生育亲生孩子这一个人及普遍设想的决策的人们提供咨询时，必须考虑到这些差异。
