In Pursuit of Parenthood

Siri Wilder is a Psychologist at the University of Texas-Dallas, USA. Her research interests include early sexual initiation, marital relationships, and adolescent development, and currently focuses upon victims of sexual assault and the long-term consequences. Sampson Lee Blair is a Family Sociologist and Demographer at The State University of New York, Buffalo, USA. A Fulbright Scholar Award recipient, he has served as Chair of the Children and Youth research section of the American Sociological Association and Vice-President of the Research Committee on Youth in the International Sociological Association. Christina L. Scott is Professor of Psychology at Whittier College, Los Angeles, USA. Her program of research has spanned a range of topics including attitudes about single mothers by choice and undergraduate sexual decision making. A 2022-2023 Fulbright Scholar, Christina taught courses in American Studies for the University of Tokyo and Kyoritsu Women's University and she is currently a Fulbright Specialist.

• Chapter 1. Endorsement of Traditional Gender Beliefs and Aspirations about Family Formation among Chinese Heterosexual and Sexual Minority International Students; Yanbin Barbara Li and Charlotte J. Patterson Chapter 2. Sexual Orientation, Parenthood Aspirations, and Involuntary Childlessness in Israel and the U.S.A.; Doyle P. Tate and Geva ShenkmanChapter 3. The Sociocultural Aspects of Infertility in African Countries: A Scoping Review; Idah Moyo and Limkile Mpofu Chapter 4. From Infertility to Childlessness: An Explanatory Framework for Declining Natality; Ji-Young Lee Chapter 5. Career is Secondary to Pursuing Motherhood Through Assisted Reproductive Technology: Evidences from India; Seema Lall Chapter 6. Re-Imagining the Embryo: Relational Metaphors in Assisted Reproductive Technology; Catarina Delaunay and Luís Gouveia Chapter 7. From Genetic Loss to Parental Hope: Decision-Making in Navigating Gamete Donation; Mariana V. Martins, Catarina Rodrigues, Ana Nogueira, and Maria Emília Costa Chapter 8. Single Mothers’ Accounts of Assisted Reproduction, Relationality, and Intimacy in Aotearoa New Zealand; Rhonda M. Shaw Chapter 9. Resigning Oneself to Resort to Another Woman to Have a Child: Procreative Trajectories of Canadian Women Who Became Mothers Through Egg Donation or Surrogacy; Kévin Lavoie, Roxane Guay, and Isabel Côté Chapter 10. Reproductive Rights, Surrogacy, and Same-Sex Parenthood in India: Redefining Family and Care Labour Dynamics; Pooja Kapoor and Shikha Vasishta Chapter 11. Harmless “Preferences”? How the Surrogacy Matching Process Legalizes Discrimination; Hillary L. Berk Chapter 12. The Lived Experience of Time: Irish and Indian Adoptive Parents in Transition to Parenthood; Sahana Mitra and Valerie O’Brien