Fall in love. Get married. Have children. For most couples, marriage and children go hand in hand. And yet, the number of people choosing childlessness is on the rise. These are the childless by choicepeople who have actively decided not to have childrenrather than the childless…
The linkage between parenthood and cognitive health has not been explored in-depth in the United States. This dissertation contributes to the broad literature on parenthood and parental well-being by examining how parental status, parent-child relationship quality, and history o…
Purpose: In 2015, there were 2.2 million people incarcerated in the United States. Over half are parents. The current assumption is parents are at greater risk of recidivism than non-parents, so additional resources should be allocated to parents to foster successful reentry. Ho…
From novels of the nineteenth century to films of the 1990s, American culture, abounds with images of white, middle-class mothers. In Motherhood and Representation, E. Ann Kaplan considers how the mother appears in three related spheres: the historical, in which she charts chang…
"From 19th-century novels to films in the 1990s, American culture abounds with the images of white, middle-class mothers. Kaplan looks at how they appear in the psychoanalytic, historical and cultural spheres."--Provided by publisher.