The legal and societal implications for individuals experiencing infertility and considering various types of assisted reproductive technology have become increasingly complex in recent decades. New regulations surrounding surrogacy agreements have attempted to provide more protection to both surrogate mothers and prospective parents. To better understand this nuanced experience, this multidisciplinary volume focuses on families navigating these methods of reproduction.
In Pursuit of Parenthood: Infertility, Assisted Reproductive Technology, and Surrogacy covers a wide array of topics including infertility (e.g., psychological consequences, the social context, and relationship coping; surrogacy (international and domestic surrogacy, formal and informal surrogacy negotiations, LGBTQ+ families choosing surrogacy,) and fertility treatments (decisions to pursue in vitro fertilization, intrauterine insemination, and sperm donation, including financial, religious, and political limitations).
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1. Endorsement of Traditional Gender Beliefs and Aspirations
about Family Formation among Chinese Heterosexual and Sexual Minority
International Students; Yanbin Barbara Li and Charlotte J. Patterson
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2. Sexual Orientation, Parenthood Aspirations, and Involuntary
Childlessness in Israel and the U.S.A.; Doyle P. Tate and Geva Shenkman
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3. The Sociocultural Aspects of Infertility in African Countries: A
Scoping Review; Idah Moyo and Limkile Mpofu
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4. From Infertility to Childlessness: An Explanatory Framework for
Declining Natality; Ji-Young Lee
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5. Career is Secondary to Pursuing Motherhood Through Assisted
Reproductive Technology: Evidences from India; Seema Lall
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6. Re-Imagining the Embryo: Relational Metaphors in Assisted
Reproductive Technology; Catarina Delaunay and Luís Gouveia
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7. From Genetic Loss to Parental Hope: Decision-Making in Navigating
Gamete Donation; Mariana V. Martins, Catarina Rodrigues, Ana Nogueira, and
Maria Emília Costa
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8. Single Mothers Accounts of Assisted Reproduction, Relationality,
and Intimacy in Aotearoa New Zealand; Rhonda M. Shaw
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9. Resigning Oneself to Resort to Another Woman to Have a Child:
Procreative Trajectories of Canadian Women Who Became Mothers Through Egg
Donation or Surrogacy; Kévin Lavoie, Roxane Guay, and Isabel Côté
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10. Reproductive Rights, Surrogacy, and Same-Sex Parenthood in India:
Redefining Family and Care Labour Dynamics; Pooja Kapoor and Shikha Vasishta
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11. Harmless Preferences? How the Surrogacy Matching Process
Legalizes Discrimination; Hillary L. Berk
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12. The Lived Experience of Time: Irish and Indian Adoptive Parents
in Transition to Parenthood; Sahana Mitra and Valerie OBrien
Siri Wilder is a Psychologist at the University of Texas-Dallas, USA. Her research interests include early sexual initiation, marital relationships, and adolescent development, and currently focuses upon victims of sexual assault and the long-term consequences.
Sampson Lee Blair is a Family Sociologist and Demographer at The State University of New York, Buffalo, USA. A Fulbright Scholar Award recipient, he has served as Chair of the Children and Youth research section of the American Sociological Association and Vice-President of the Research Committee on Youth in the International Sociological Association.
Christina L. Scott is Professor of Psychology at Whittier College, Los Angeles, USA. Her program of research has spanned a range of topics including attitudes about single mothers by choice and undergraduate sexual decision making. A 2022-2023 Fulbright Scholar, Christina taught courses in American Studies for the University of Tokyo and Kyoritsu Women's University and she is currently a Fulbright Specialist.
