Naznaczanie społeczne i samonaznaczanie osób niepłodnych

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This paper explores community constructs of childlessness and how these constructs influence the
\nexperience of infertility. The author presents stigma concept within the deviance literature and then the
\nsocial construction of reproduction as a moral issue and the most important part of marital life in country
\nwith strong pronatalist ideology.
\nThe main way of labeling is stereotyping infertile couples and to press childless people to become
\na parent regardless of any costs. The author analyzes infertility experienced by women and men as
\nguilt, inadequacy, failure and pain treated as self-labeling. The last part of the paper presents the coping
\nstrategies including selective disclosure, avoidance of exposure of own hidden disability or create the
\n“potential identity” of a biological parent in the struggle to reject possibly permanent infertile identity.
\nFindings are presented from psychological and sociological literature and the resu

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