DDPeSG - Parents are not born, they are made. Falling birth rate, procreative difficulties and parenting choices: a gender and intercultural psycho-pedagogical perspective

Principal investigator: prof. Stefania Lorenzini

Project team: Cinzia Albanesi (PSI)

Type: ALMAIDEA GRANT - Line A

Project duration: 18 months

Start date: 01/07/2022       

End date: 31/12/2023

Status: active

Total budget: 24.000 euros

Project’s topics: Parenting, Adoption, Medically Assisted Procreation and Educational support

Description: The project intends to investigate, in a psycho-pedagogical perspective attentive to the gender and intercultural dimension, the plurality of experiences of procreative difficulties or impossibilities on a biological level (infertility) and the role they play in the parenting experience of couples who have turned to Procreation Medically Assisted (PMA) and/or adoption, nationally or internationally.

 The research objectives are:

 To review:

- The role played by the working and social context on procreative difficulties/impossibilities, particularly with respect to women

- The impact of procreative difficulties/impossibilities on the experiences of adoptive parents or through PMA

- The representations of parenthood in the actors involved

- Specificities in the representation and exercise of parenting in relation to the particular origins of parenthood (Adoption, PMA) and the socio-demographic characteristics of the participants

 - If and how the parents talked to their sons and daughters about the particular ways in which their family was born

- The possible presence of stigma in the experience of people who have experienced difficulties/impossibility in procreation.

 To elaborate:

- Proposals for educational support for these specific forms of parenting

- Guidelines/tools for raising awareness of the project's issues, involving the target groups in their definition, through a participatory action research process

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