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{"title":"'My Wife’s Pregnant, We’re Gonna Have a Baby!' 'Oh, Tell Her Congratulations!'Same-Sex Couples’ Desires for Support in Parenting","authors":"A. James","doi":"10.3998/mfr.4919087.0021.102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/mfr.4919087.0021.102","url":null,"abstract":"Same-sex couples with children face a variety of challenges in raising children. The literature does not examine the parenting challenges that couples face and how such challenges affect the lives of their families. What challenges do samesex couples face in raising their children? How do legal challenges affect samesex parents and their families? Using data drawn from qualitative interviews with same-sex parents in 2015, I highlight some parenting challenges that same-sex couples still face, despite and within the recent legalization of same-sex marriage. Findings suggest that same-sex parents continue to face challenges even with the legalization of same-sex marriage; however, the severity of these challenges may decrease over time. While this study is limited by the lack of diversity in the sample, participants in this study infer the need for a broad awareness of parenting challenges that same-sex couples continue to face.","PeriodicalId":32430,"journal":{"name":"Michigan Family Review","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73549399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Accuracy of Lay Estimates of Abortion Rates and the Demographic, Attitudinal, and Behavioral Sources of Variation in these Estimates","authors":"Eric M. Beasley, Dilshani Sarathchandra","doi":"10.3998/MFR.4919087.0019.102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/MFR.4919087.0019.102","url":null,"abstract":"Abortion is a topic and practice with deep socio-political undergirding. While research on attitudes toward abortions is prevalent, less is known about perceptions of the frequency of abortion in the general population. Using primary data gathered from an online survey of students, faculty and staff of two public universities in the U.S., we found that people generally underestimate the percentage of pregnancies that end in abortion. We discuss this finding and the role of demographic, attitudinal, and behavioral variables in the abortion estimates made by respondents. Additionally, we discuss the implications of these findings, taking into consideration the societal effects of a potential correction of the underestimation of abortion rates.","PeriodicalId":32430,"journal":{"name":"Michigan Family Review","volume":"28 1","pages":"26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86763639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Contact Hypothesis and Millennial Evangelical Protestants’ Attitudes toward Same-Sex Families","authors":"Elisha Marr","doi":"10.3998/MFR.4919087.0019.101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/MFR.4919087.0019.101","url":null,"abstract":"Research regarding attitudes towards same-sex couples and their creation of families has identified a few trends including: 1) Millennials are the generation most likely to have favorable views of same-sex families, 2) evangelical Protestants are the religious group least likely to be supportive, and 3) people who have contact with lesbian women, gay men, bisexual, and queer identified people (LGBQ) are more likely to support their coupling and family creation. Millennial evangelical Protestants (MEP) were surveyed about their attitudes towards same-sex headed families to learn whether their attitudes were more consistent with their age or religious affiliation and whether contact with LGBQ people had any influence on their opinions. It was found that although there are a portion of MEPs who feel positively about same-sex families, a notable and often larger portion consider same-sex relationships to be wrong and are not supportive of legislation that promotes same-sex families. However, it was also found that contact with LGBQ individuals increased favorable attitudes toward same-sex families, and knowing someone in a same-sex relationship has a greater impact on attitudes than only knowing someone who is LGBQ. These findings have important implications for the future of MEPs’ relationships with the church.","PeriodicalId":32430,"journal":{"name":"Michigan Family Review","volume":"66 1","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91269282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Compensating Nuclear Weapons Workers and Their Survivors: The Case of Fernald","authors":"Patricia K. Cianciolo","doi":"10.3998/mfr.4919087.0019.103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/mfr.4919087.0019.103","url":null,"abstract":"Nuclear power plant disasters in recent history have had significant global, environmental, health, and social consequences. Compensation systems have been designed and are required by plants that have had such disasters to mitigate the risks and deleterious effects of the industry world-wide. The large-scale production of nuclear weapons that occurred in the United States during the Cold War also created additional consequences for plant workers, their families, and the communities where facilities were located. The Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Act (EEOICPA) was legislated by Congress in 2000 to remunerate workers and/or their survivors for risks associated with exposure while employed. Fernald, located northwest of Cincinnati, Ohio, was the location of one of several hundred plant facilities throughout the U.S. that aided in nuclear weapons production. This small exploratory case study examined how former Fernald workers and their family members experienced the legal application and/or determination process in order to receive compensation for past risks. Social justice implications are discussed in the conclusions, as well as directions for future research.","PeriodicalId":32430,"journal":{"name":"Michigan Family Review","volume":"22 1","pages":"51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74602883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"'It’s the Choices You Make That Get You There': Decision-Making Pathways of Childfree Women","authors":"Braelin Settle, K. Brumley","doi":"10.3998/MFR.4919087.0018.102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/MFR.4919087.0018.102","url":null,"abstract":"Using qualitative in-depth interviews with U.S. women, we examined how and why women make the decision to remain childfree. First, we show how women’s decision-making pathways were the result of complex factors. Second, we illustrate why the women chose to be childfree, highlighting the benefits of being childfree, the costs of motherhood, and the constraints women felt they faced. Although an exploratory study, our interviews suggest diversity in how women make the decision to be childfree, partly shaped by age, relationship status, and race. Yet our analysis of why women chose to remain childfree did not reveal patterns by their individual characteristics. The women were consistent in the belief that motherhood would disrupt their lifestyle and they would risk not living up to societal expectations of a “good” mother. We argue this shows the power of the social construction of motherhood.","PeriodicalId":32430,"journal":{"name":"Michigan Family Review","volume":"28 1","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81078968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Navigating, Negotiating, and Advocating: Black Mothers, their Young Daughters, and White Schools","authors":"Chasity Bailey-Fakhoury","doi":"10.3998/MFR.4919087.0018.105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/MFR.4919087.0018.105","url":null,"abstract":"This study convened focus groups to identify the strategies suburban Detroit, middle-class, African American mothers use to promote a positive racial identity in their elementary-age daughters attending a predominantly White school. Findings demonstrate that mothers engage three strategies that reflect a dimension of the motherwork concept: presence, imaging, and code-switching. These strategies are aimed at influencing the development of a positive racialgender identity and are embedded within a gendered racial socialization process.","PeriodicalId":32430,"journal":{"name":"Michigan Family Review","volume":"198 1","pages":"57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73668525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"'After Months of It, You Just Want to Punch Someone in the Face': Stay-at-Home Fathers and Masculine Identities","authors":"C. Solomon","doi":"10.3998/MFR.4919087.0018.103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/MFR.4919087.0018.103","url":null,"abstract":"\"I bundle up Moira and KateAnd take them to ballet which is greatAnd I sit and read a book in the hallAnd mothers do not talk to me at all.They sit down at their end and I at mineAnd they glance my way from time to timeAnd those little glances really hurt.\"-- \"The Only Living House Dad in Eau Claire\" by Garrison KeillorAs depicted in this song by Garrison Keillor, stay-at-home fathers are relatively uncommon despite an increased presence in mainstream TV shows like NBC's Parenthood or ABC's Up All Night and in TV commercials. Current estimates from the U.S. Census show stay-at-home fathers to number around 190,000 (U.S. Census, 2013). This is a substantial increase from 2002 when such dads were close to 100,000 (Fields, 2003). The rise in their numbers is perhaps a reflection of the changing expectations of fathers.Fathers, like mothers, have experienced shifts in their role in the last 40 years. Whereas economic provision and breadwinning has comprised a significant part of fathering in the past, current models of fathering encourage more hands-on involvement (Lamb, 2000; Pleck & Pleck, 1997). Such \"involved fathering\" entails taking responsibility for daily caregiving activities and being engaged and attentive to children's needs. Fathers are more likely to be involved with and responsible for childcare if their wives are employed outside the home (Jacobs & Kelley, 2006) and if the fathers themselves are well-educated and middle- to upper class (Marks & Palkovitz, 2004). This expectation of increased involvement creates tension. More men are reporting conflict between work and family, wishing to spend fewer hours at work and more time at home (Aumann, Galinsky, & Matos, 2011). Despite this desire, many fathers do not care for their children an equal amount of time as their wives (Shows & Gerstel, 2009) or reduce their paid work hours (Aumann, Galinsky, & Matos, 2011). This lack of involvement could stem from men's continued identification with the family breadwinner ideal that supports traditional masculinity (Aumann, Galinsky, & Matos, 2011). Investing many hours in childcare (and therefore not in paid work) contradicts the traditional ideal of fatherhood and tenents of traditional masculinity. Stay-at-home fathers represent one type of involved father, but research about their experiences is scarce, particularly in the United States. I address the following questions in my exploratory study of 32 stay-at-home fathers from locations across the United States: What are the gender-related challenges these men face because of their family behaviors? How do stay-at-home fathers respond to these challenges? In my study, I demonstrate that stay-at-home fathers challenge hegemonic masculinity when faced with resistance to their caregiving and, in doing so, create a new masculine ideal: \"evolved masculinity.\" Research about Stay-at-Home Fathers Much research about stay-at-home fathers has been conducted in other countries (Doucet, 2004, 2006, 2009; Mer","PeriodicalId":32430,"journal":{"name":"Michigan Family Review","volume":"2 1","pages":"23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89311258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Meeting the Needs of Mothers and Families? Family Self-Sufficiency Programs and Goals of Homeownership","authors":"S. Everhardt","doi":"10.3998/MFR.4919087.0018.106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/MFR.4919087.0018.106","url":null,"abstract":"The theoretical and conceptual connections between homeownership and economic self-sufficiency are complicated. Generally, families are able to become homeowners because they are economically self-sufficient (Shlay, 1994). Economic self-sufficiency is typically defined as economic independence from government or family assistance (Shlay, 1994). An important goal of this study was to uncover what being \"economically self-sufficient\" means to these low income women. This study also attempted to determine whether or not women consider homeownership to be an important part of economic self-sufficiency. Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) programs are designed to help low income families reach their self-sufficiency goals, including homeownership (Rohe & Watson, 2007). It is therefore important to examine low income families' experiences while enrolled in these programs because programs such as these may be their only chance for economic independence and a better quality of life.For low income families, homeownership may be the catalyst for achieving economic independence over the long term (Shlay, 1994; Rohe & Watson, 2007). Promoting homeownership as a tool for economic independence is not new; homeownership has been central in housing policy since the Great Depression (Shlay, 1994). Homeownership is one of the most commonly discussed goals associated with achieving the American Dream (Shlay, 1994; Rohe and Watson, 2007). This may explain why the U.S. Census Bureau reports that the majority of Americans (68.2 %) owned homes in 2007 (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 2007). It should come as no surprise, then, that many low income families are striving for the same dreams of economic independence as other Americans - not only the opportunity to be economically independent but also to purchase their own homes.However, the pursuit of economic self-sufficiency and homeownership for low income women of color and their families is complicated by the presence of personal- and system-level barriers which operate simultaneously (Lindhorst Everhardt, 2009). Existing literature (e.g., Edin & Lein, 1997; Ehrenreich, 2001) has focused on women's personal, organizational, and societal barriers separately rather than how women's personal- and system-level barriers intersect with one another making barriers more difficult for women to overcome. Although personal-level barriers should be viewed separately from system-level barriers, both are equally important in explaining the hardships that low income women and their families experience in striving for economic self-sufficiency and/or homeownership. This study used data from 24 in-depth interviews to better understand what barriers low income women and their families face as they attempt to reach economic self-sufficiency, as well as whether homeownership was one of their economic self-sufficiency goals, and how they experienced being part of a FSS program. Six of the 24 narratives are discussed in detail in this article, and t","PeriodicalId":32430,"journal":{"name":"Michigan Family Review","volume":"34 1","pages":"80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75602358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Feeding the Communal Family: 'Family Time' and the Division of Household Labor in Cohousing","authors":"Heather Sullivan-Catlin","doi":"10.3998/MFR.4919087.0018.104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/MFR.4919087.0018.104","url":null,"abstract":"Gathering around the family dinner table is a strongly-held value in American culture (Kremer-Sadlik, Fatigante, and Fasulo, 2008) and many positive effects of family meals have been documented in the literature (Davidson and Gauthier, 2010). At the same time, expectations about family dinner can exacerbate the pressure on dual-career couples already in a \"time bind\" (Hochschild, 1997), and add stress to their marriages as women, especially working mothers, are more likely to feel overwhelmed by and unappreciated for these labors (Spitze and Loscocco, 2000). Yet most families, with some variation based on family structure and resources, mother's employment, and family functioning, do make time to eat together (Davidson and Gauthier, 2010). However, the quantity of time spent at the family dinner table has been in steady decline (Schor, 2005) despite its significance as a key activity for \"family time\" (Gutierrez, Price, and Arnould, 2008).The notion of family time is closely related to the concept of \"quality time,\" both of which have received increased attention in response to the extensive growth in labor force participation among middle-class mothers (DeVault 2000). This attention couples concern that parents are not spending enough time with their children, with a romanticized vision of the past and an idealized image of the family (Kremer-Sadlik et al, 2008) where family meals are \"cast as positive experiences central to family preservation\" (Price, 2008, p. 189). In addition, the cultural pressure to achieve idealized experiences of quality time can add to family stress (Kremer-Sadlik and Paugh, 2007) and the reality of family dinner may more closely resemble a \"6 o'clock crash\" (Larson and Richards, 1994), fraught with conflict and fatigue (Gutierrez et al, 2008). Through an examination of communal meals in cohousing, a form of intentional community, this article explores the tension between the notion of the family dinner as family time and the opportunity for redistributing, and balancing by gender, mealtime household labor.Cohousing communities are resident-developed and managed cooperative neighborhoods where privately-owned (or less often, rented), self-sufficient household units are clustered around a \"common house\" with shared facilities including a dining room for \"common meals\" and assorted other amenities such as a children's play area, teen room, laundry, exercise space, and/or guest rooms (McCamant and Durrett, 1994; Meltzer, 2005). They typically range in size from fifteen to forty household units. Cohousing, a Danish model, was introduced in the United States in 1988 and has grown rapidly. Today there are over 100 established (i.e. built and occupied) cohousing communities in the United States and more on the way with over 100 other groups working on new projects.[1]The common house is the heart of the community where members come together to dine, share childcare, socialize, and hold meetings. Each home is self-sufficient wi","PeriodicalId":32430,"journal":{"name":"Michigan Family Review","volume":"40 1","pages":"39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80032816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction: Special Issue on Choices and Challenges: Contemporary Families","authors":"Heather Laube","doi":"10.3998/MFR.4919087.0018.101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/MFR.4919087.0018.101","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":32430,"journal":{"name":"Michigan Family Review","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75208066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}