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- Title: Women and Reproductive Loss: Client-Worker Dialogues Designed to Break the Silence (Report)
- Author : Social Work
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 215 KB
Description
One in every four currently parenting women in the United States also experienced a pregnancy loss during her lifetime (Price, 2006), on the basis of data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (National Center for Education Statistics (2005). However, the questions that emerge from individual women encountered during my practice and research experience suggest that loss events during a woman's reproductive years are challenging and, at times, isolating experiences: "Am I the only person who feels this way? Why doesn't anyone know what to say to me now? Will this happen again?" These concerns, voiced by women spanning a range of socioeconomic, political, religious, and racial-ethnic backgrounds, convey the intrinsic tension between individual experience and societal perceptions of reproductive loss. This article asserts that there is a silence around reproductive loss within our profession that limits flail individual, familial, and social awareness surrounding this issue. The silence does not emerge from an inability to discuss individual women's self-initiated concerns about their reproductive loss experiences; many practitioners are trained and competent to do exactly that. Silence results from passive oversight of reproductive losses as significant life events from which rich and detailed information about women's self-identity can emerge. Silence is magnified when reproductive losses are relegated to specialized areas of social work practice, such as grief counseling, rather than recognized as significant life course events that may affect identity, social role, self-image, and conceptualization of a woman's reproductive history and human sexuality across the entire range of practice settings.
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