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Exploration of multigenerational family and surrounding cultural systems: How primary and secondary losses silently impacted current generation's meaning of motherhood and contributed to rejection of pregnancy.
Study explores meaning of motherhood through 19th and 20th century rural Midwest motherline. Data was taken from life history and analyzed using hermeneutics and intuitive interactionism. Hypothesis: negative meaning of motherhood developed as a result of premature primary and secondary loss coupled with hazards endemic to farming and lack of available resources during the Depression. The author had four surgeries for infertility, and four pregnancies with no full term delivery. After childbearing years, author became aware of possibility that a negative message regarding motherhood had been tacitly transmitted via family bias. The literature review explores (1) history of motherhood from mythology through western religions, (2) the political meaning of motherhood vs. actual meaning rural wife/mother derived from experience, and (3) the psychological implications of loss. Author concluded that family meaning of motherhood could well have affected her biology causing her to reject pregnancies. Thesis validates relevance of family systems theory and psychological body-mind influence on physiology.
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