![]() Young motherhood, life course, risk, good motherhood, youthful motherhood, Mothers seemed to prefer peer-parenting support online (Paper 4) in closedįacebook groups above participating in governmental expert-guided face-toface Possibilities to take on the position as the “main-mother” of her child. Guidance into motherhood while at the same time limiting the young mothers’ Had contradictory meanings for their identities and functioned as a form of Support from the young mothers’ own mothers (Paper 3) Two emerging motherhoodĭiscourses were identified: youthful motherhood (Paper 1) and common-sense Identity in relation to the world around them. To) when presenting their maternal positions and making sense of their maternal Upon in a trustworthy way (or which motherhood discourses they lacked access Mothers’ level of presumed riskiness seemed in turn to have meanings for whichĭominant and/or alternative motherhood discourses they could access and draw ![]() Mothers, high risk mothers, and mothers seen as too risky for mothering. Furthermore (Paper 2), the mothers appeared to be discursivelyĭivided into three different levels of riskiness in their social contexts: less risky The interviewed young mothers followed or deviated from their expected lifeĬourse seemed to have an impact on the degree to which their mothering was The findings of the thesis suggest (Papers 1, 2, and 3) that whether Was analysed in relation to theories and debates about parenting and the lifeĬourse, the risk society, and the notion of “good motherhood”. The identity work of the interviewed young mothers Substudy were analysed through thematic content analysis. The ethnographical data and interviews in this particular Through network analysis, online ethnography, and telephone interviews Data from the three Facebook groups were analysed For theįourth paper, three Facebook groups that offered parenting support online to Were analysed from the perspective of discursive psychology. Interviewed 1 or 2 times each (in total 31 interviews). Study young motherhood in relation to different forms of parenting support.įor the first three papers, 17 young Swedish mothers aged 13–25 were The overarching aim of this thesis was toĮxplore the maternal identity work of young mothers and, as part of this, to However, there is still limited knowledge about the maternal ![]() How young mothers can be supported or on how notions of young motherhoodĪre produced. Most studies about young motherhood have focused on identifying However, while working out new ways of doing family, these practices are located within deeply conventional moralities of motherhood, which leave little space within which to offer up new stories of doing family. They present a radical departure from dominant conventions of heterosexual gendered family norms and the biological imperatives of reproduction. As such, they can offer new insights to the above debates. Respondents in my study are involved in both innovative family practices and the care of dependent children. However, to date, relatively little attention has been paid to the ways in which these themes may be modified by the presence of dependent children, particularly given the socially constructed nature of children's needs. Overall, recent sociological research into both heterosexual and 'non-heterosexual' family lives suggests that transformations of intimacy are characterised by negotiated commitments and moral reasoning. Lesbian parents, for example, have been portrayed as selfish individuals (Phillips, 1998) or alternatively as 'prime everyday experimenters' (Giddens, 1992), although the reality may be more nuanced than either of these polarities suggests. There is widespread agreement that individualism in personal relationships has substantially increased, although opinions differ about the extent to which this individualism is essentially selfish. These possibilities can be placed in the context of wider transformations of intimacy. choosing to have children in the context of their relationship. While lesbian and gay parents have a long history, there is little precedence for same sex couples setting up families 'from scratch' i.e. These families are one example of the increasing possibilities to live in non-traditional relationships and family forms, in contemporary Western societies. This study is based on joint and separate in-depth interviews with twenty (female) same sex couples who planned and had their children together in the context of their relationship.
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