Neurological Diversity and Epigenetic Influences in Utero. An Ethical Investigation of Maternal Responsibility Towards the Future Child

2017 ◽  
pp. 105-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristien Hens
Keyword(s):  
In Utero ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Child ◽  
Maternal Responsibility

scholarly journals ‘Your Womb, The Perfect Classroom’: Prenatal Sound Systems and Uterine Audiophilia

2020 ◽  
pp. 014177892095867
Author(s):  
Marie Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Common Point ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Reproductive Politics ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Child ◽  
The Common ◽  
Culture Technology ◽  
Maternal Obligation

In this article, I explore the auditory technopolitics of prenatal sound systems, asking what kinds of futures, listeners and temporalities they seek to produce. With patents for prenatal audio apparatus dating back to the late 1980s, there are now a range of devices available to expectant parents. These sound technologies offer multiple benefits: from soothing away stress to increasing the efficiency of ultrasonic scans. However, one common point of emphasis is their capacity to accelerate foetal ‘learning’ and cognitive development. Taking as exemplary the Babypod and BabyPlus devices, I argue that prenatal sound systems make audible a particular figuration of pregnancy and gestational labour that combines divergent notions of responsibility and passivity. Contra the equation of neoliberalism with self-control and individualism, I argue that prenatal sound systems amplify neoliberal capitalism’s elision of personal, maternal and familial responsibility. As reproductive sound technologies, prenatal sound systems facilitate maternal–familial investment in the pre-born as future-child. Consequently, financialised notions of inheritance are substituted for biological inheritance. Drawing attention to the common rhetorical figuration of the sonic as womb-like, furthermore, I argue that prenatal sound systems exemplify what I refer to as uterine audiophilia. By treating the womb as ‘the perfect classroom’, prenatal sound systems imply an intense maternal obligation to invest in and impress upon the future-child, while also envisioning the pregnant person’s body as an occupied, resonant space. Cohering with a fidelity discourse that posits the reproductive medium as passive container and a source of noise that is to be overcome, uterine audiophilia relies upon politically regressive conceptualisations of pregnancy. I thus argue that these devices mark the hitherto under-theorised convergence of auditory culture, technology and reproductive politics.

scholarly journals MOTIVATION OF ALTRUISTIC SPERM DONORS PARTICIPATING IN ASSISTED REPRODUCTION IN RUSSIAN FEDERATION

2021 ◽  
pp. 34-54
Author(s):  
E.E. Symaniuk ◽  
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I.G. Polyakova ◽  
A.G. Andal ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Reproduction ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Sperm Donation ◽  
Donor Motivations ◽  
Sperm Donors ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Child

This article explores the motivations behind Russian men’s altruistic sperm donation using Alderfer's Existence-Relatedness-Growth (ERG) model. Among the sample of 86 men, altru-istic motivation is mostly driven by existence and relatedness. Correlations tests indicated two patterns: 1) men driven by existence needs are more willing to maintain contact with the future child and less prone to self-promotion; 2) men driven by relatedness needs demon-strate the opposite characteristics. These results contribute to further research of reproductive donor motivations in Russia.

scholarly journals Collective Optimism and Selection Against Male Twins in Utero

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-50
Author(s):  
Ralph A. Catalano ◽  
Sidra Goldman-Mellor ◽  
Deborah A. Karasek ◽  
Alison Gemmill ◽  
Joan A. Casey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
High Risk ◽  
In Utero ◽  
Monthly Data ◽  
Public Health Infrastructure ◽  
Health Infrastructure ◽  
Child Bearing ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Male Twin

AbstractScholarly literature claims that health declines in populations when optimism about investing in the future wanes. This claim leads us to describe collective optimism as a predictor of selection in utero. Based on the literature, we argue that the incidence of suicide gauges collective optimism in a population and therefore willingness to invest in the future. Using monthly data from Sweden for the years 1973–2016, we test the hypothesis that the incidence of suicide among women of child-bearing age correlates inversely with male twin births, an indicator of biological investment in high-risk gestations. We find that, as predicted by our theory, the incidence of suicide at month t varies inversely with the ratio of twin to singleton male births at month t + 3. Our results illustrate the likely sensitivity of selection in utero to change in the social environment and so the potential for viewing collective optimism as a component of public health infrastructure.

Diethylstilboestrol – effects of exposure in utero

1991 ◽  
Vol 29 (13) ◽  
pp. 49-50
Keyword(s):  
Perinatal Mortality ◽  
Reproductive Tract ◽  
In Utero ◽  
Psychological Problems ◽  
Urogenital Tract ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Usa ◽  
In Pregnancy

Between 1940 and 1970, up to 10000 women in England and Wales, and up to 2 million in the USA, received prophylactic diethylstilboestrol (DES) in an attempt to improve the outcome of pregnancy. Trials performed only later showed that DES did not reduce the incidence of abortion, toxaemia, prematurity or perinatal mortality.1 However, the use of DES in pregnancy is now known to damage the fetal reproductive tract: it can cause malignancy, maldevelopment of the urogenital tract, infertility, increased perinatal mortality and psychological problems. The complex issues raised by this disaster are not just historical, but still affect people now and have important lessons for the future.2

Homebirth and the Future Child

2014 ◽  
Vol 40 (12) ◽  
pp. 807-812 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lachlan de Crespigny ◽  
Julian Savulescu
Keyword(s):  
The Future ◽  
Future Child

scholarly journals PENEGAKAN HUKUM TERHADAP HAK ASUH ANAK AKIBAT PERCERAIAN DALAM PRAKTIK PERADILAN DI BALI

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ni Nyoman Sukerti
Keyword(s):  
Child Custody ◽  
Legal Pluralism ◽  
Children Of Divorce ◽  
Marriage Law ◽  
Custody Of Children ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Child ◽  
The Right

Our research aims to find and analyze the laws applied by judge to custody of children due to divorce related to the enactment of legal pluralism. Related to this, the issues raised in this research are: 1). What law applied by judges to child custody  of divorce related to the enactment of legal pluralism?  2). What factors are the basis for consideration of the judge in determined custody of children divorce?. The results showed that the judge in determined custody of children of divorce apply national law. That is child to custody by mother may or paternal. Children who are under the care of the mother did not lose the right to inherit the father's side. The factors on which the consideration of the judge in determining child custody is a national marriage law, the cause of the divorce, and ensuring the interests the future of children, parenting by mothers did not abort child right inherit the father's side. The conclusion that the judge in determined the custody of children due to divorce apply national law. The factors on which the consideration of the judge in determining child custody is a national law, the cause of the divorce, and ensuring the interests of future child, parenting did not abort of child in her father's right to inherit.

Mental Representations of Pregnant Nulliparous Women Having No Sex Preference

1996 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 464-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacques D. Marleau ◽  
Jean-François Saucier ◽  
Odette Bernazzani ◽  
François Borgeat ◽  
Hélène David
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Mental Representations ◽  
Repertory Grid ◽  
Sex Preference ◽  
Nulliparous Women ◽  
First Child ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Child

The objective was to elicit the mental representations about the sex of the future child of 89 nulliparous pregnant women who declared having no sex preference, using the Kelly s Repertory Grid. Analyses showed that 67% of these women had no explicit and clear representation about the sex of their first child. These data suggest that these pregnant women seemed really to have no sex preference.

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