Exam 10: Becoming Parents: Choices and Challenges

Discuss the limitations, restrictions, and recovery of sexuality following labor and delivery.

The ________ is the average number of live births per woman, in a given population, per year.

Research into childlessness categorizes childless women in the several groups. Women from this group are not willing to, nor do they have a desire to, sacrifice money, energy, time, or themselves in rearing children.

Approximately one-third of the problems associated with infertility are due to women's reproductive systems.

Sex usually diminishes after childbirth and rarely rebounds.

Researchers from Finland made a key conclusion regarding couples who report high levels of conflict during pregnancy. What was it?

Research into childlessness categorizes childless women into four groups. Please list and explain.

"QF" couples are often motivated by their biblical convictions. Explain.

_______ refers to the death of a fetus after the 20th week (fourth months) of pregnancy.

Some research has demonstrated that bad memories of our childhood experiences have accounted for unique variances in why some men and women choose to have children, and others do not. These experiences underlie what is known as what?

How much can adoption typically cost?

Most studies and theories about the motivation to become a parent center on the perspective that there are perceived rewards and costs associated with parenthood.

This process requires the woman's eggs to be fertilized by the man's sperm in a laboratory culture dish. The fertilized egg is then placed immediately in the woman's fallopian tubes, rather than her uterus, allowing the conceptus to travel naturally to the uterus and implant.

_______ is the medical process in which donor sperm is placed into the woman's vagina, cervix, or uterus by a syringe.

________ involves manually manipulating the sperm and eggs, but instead of fertilizing the eggs in a dish, the unfertilized eggs and the male's sperm are placed in the woman's fallopian tubes.

"Parenting the child would be rewarding." This statement is one of the _______ factors people consider before becoming parents.

According to a recent study, lesbian mothers are less satisfied with their partners as co-parents than heterosexual mothers were with their husbands as co-parents.

________ is caused by untreated sexually transmitted infections (i.e., gonorrhea and chlamydia). It renders 150,000 women per year infertile, making it the leading cause of infertility in young women.

Any loss of a fetus or embryo before the fourth month of pregnancy is termed a _____.

The text lists a number of factors that are associated with the unprecedented rates of births that occur outside of marriage. Name three.