Journal article
Abortion as Fatherhood Lost: Problems and Reforms
Family coordinator, v 28(4), pp 569-574
01 Oct 1979
Abstract
Over a million males in the U.S.A. have been involved with abortions since the 1973 legalization of abortion-on-request. While several hundred reports exist on the female's experience, only three focus on that which males undergo when a near-fatherhood experience ends in a legal abortion. This paper reviews all three reports and adds new data and insights from questionnaires and interviews completed by 50 young white males. In summary, a sizeable minority of males find their abortion experience more frustrating, trying, and emotionally costly than public and academic neglect of this subject would suggest. Reform options are suggested which might help males deal with an abortion's unexplored, unarticulated, unshared, and unmourned aspects.
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Details
- Title
- Abortion as Fatherhood Lost: Problems and Reforms
- Creators
- Arthur B. Shostak
- Publication Details
- Family coordinator, v 28(4), pp 569-574
- Publisher
- National Council on Family Relations
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Sociology; Culture and Communication [Historical]
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:A1979HS66600020
- Other Identifier
- 991020705490904721