The Birth of Disability

Familial Conceptions of Good and Bad Births Parents typically anticipate and approach the birth of a child with a particular set of conceptions regarding birth and children. This set of conceptions generally focuses on parental and familial expecta tions of how the child will influence the life of the family and how, in turn, the life of the family will influence the child. These conceptions and expectations are derivatives of societal and cultural ideas about the family. This is to say that a culture provides its members with ways of thinking about, speaking about, and acting toward the event of birth. Thus parents anticipate and ap proach the birth of a child within the framework of a set of concep tions and expectations derived from culturally available ways of understanding the birth of an offspring. Conceptions of birth typically presuppose "good health" as a stand ard for a "good birth."

Canadian Identity and History · Medicine · Psychology

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