کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5123443 1378387 2017 9 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Adoption Decision Making among Women Seeking Abortion
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
تصمیم گیری تصمیم گیری در مورد زنان سقط جنین
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی زنان، زایمان و بهداشت زنان
چکیده انگلیسی

BackgroundLittle is known about how adoption factors into pregnancy decision making, particularly when abortion is unavailable.MethodsWe used data from the Turnaway Study, a longitudinal study of 956 women seeking abortion, including 231 women denied abortions owing to gestational limits. Through semiannual quantitative interviews, we assessed the frequency with which women denied abortion consider and choose adoption, and, among adoption participants, decision satisfaction. We compared differences in the demographic profiles of parenting and adoption participants using mixed effects regression models. We conducted in-depth interviews with 31 women who received or were denied wanted abortions, including 2 adoption participants, focused on understanding pregnancy decision making and feelings about their choice. Interviews were coded using inductive and deductive methods.ResultsMost women who received abortions were aware of but uninterested in adoption. A minority of women denied abortions (n = 231; 14%) were considering adoption at 1 week after denial. Of participants who gave birth (n = 161), most (91%) chose parenting. Parenting participants (n = 146) did not differ from adoption participants (n = 15) on measures of age, race, or poverty status, although adoption participants were somewhat less likely to be employed (20% vs. 43%; p = .1), and somewhat more likely to have completed high school (87% vs. 74%; p = .08). Although satisfaction with their decision was high among adoption participants, in-depth interviews revealed mixed emotions.ConclusionsAmong women motivated to avoid parenthood, as evidenced by abortion seeking, adoption is considered or chosen infrequently. Political promotion of adoption as an alternative to abortion is likely not grounded in the reality of women's decision making.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Women's Health Issues - Volume 27, Issue 2, March–April 2017, Pages 136-144
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