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