{"title":"Children as Investment: Religion, Money, and Muslim Migrants' Experiences of Assisted Reproduction in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ).","authors":"Nelly Martin-Anatias, Sharyn Graham Davies","doi":"10.1007/s10823-023-09491-5","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Children are valued in all societies although the specific framing of that value differs. Several societies frame the value of children through the lens of investment. For instance, children are worth having and financially and emotionally investing in because children may grow up to be economically productive citizens offering financial and emotional support to aging parents. Drawing on interviews with 18 Muslim participants in Aotearoa New Zealand, we show that the act of investing in children is emotional, financial and religious. However, while would-be-parents talked most strongly about children being a form of religious investment for the future, investment as money was forced upon participants as they engaged with assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs). We explore how Muslim women and couples navigate terrain around children as investment showing a tangible tension between investment as money and investment as accruing religious capital. We thus develop the concept of children as religious investment to better understand Muslims' journeys through ARTs.</p>","PeriodicalId":46921,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology","volume":" ","pages":"307-325"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3000,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10823-023-09491-5","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2023/11/17 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"GERONTOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Children are valued in all societies although the specific framing of that value differs. Several societies frame the value of children through the lens of investment. For instance, children are worth having and financially and emotionally investing in because children may grow up to be economically productive citizens offering financial and emotional support to aging parents. Drawing on interviews with 18 Muslim participants in Aotearoa New Zealand, we show that the act of investing in children is emotional, financial and religious. However, while would-be-parents talked most strongly about children being a form of religious investment for the future, investment as money was forced upon participants as they engaged with assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs). We explore how Muslim women and couples navigate terrain around children as investment showing a tangible tension between investment as money and investment as accruing religious capital. We thus develop the concept of children as religious investment to better understand Muslims' journeys through ARTs.
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The Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology is an international and interdisciplinary journal providing a forum for scholarly discussion of the aging process and issues of the aged throughout the world. The journal emphasizes discussions of research findings, theoretical issues, and applied approaches and provides a comparative orientation to the study of aging in cultural contexts The core of the journal comprises a broad range of articles dealing with global aging, written from the perspectives of history, anthropology, sociology, political science, psychology, population studies, health/biology, etc. We welcome articles that examine aging within a particular cultural context, compare aging and older adults across societies, and/or compare sub-cultural groupings or ethnic minorities within or across larger societies. Comparative analyses of topics relating to older adults, such as aging within socialist vs. capitalist systems or within societies with different social service delivery systems, also are appropriate for this journal. With societies becoming ever more multicultural and experiencing a `graying'' of their population on a hitherto unprecedented scale, the Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology stands at the forefront of one of the most pressing issues of our times.
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