Punishing the pregnant innocents : single pregnancy in St. John's, Newfoundland

The primary objectives of this study are to determine, from data obtained from 40 single pregnant girls in the city of St. John's, -- (a) to what extent social and emotional factors are inhibitory to a healthy pregnancy outcome for all persons concerned. -- (b) whether the established and gener...

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Main Author: Toumishey, Laura Hope
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Memorial University of Newfoundland 1978
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spelling ftmemorialuniv:oai:research.library.mun.ca:5666 2023-10-01T03:57:39+02:00 Punishing the pregnant innocents : single pregnancy in St. John's, Newfoundland Toumishey, Laura Hope 1978 application/pdf https://research.library.mun.ca/5666/ https://research.library.mun.ca/5666/1/Toumishey_LauraHope.pdf https://research.library.mun.ca/5666/3/Toumishey_LauraHope.pdf en eng Memorial University of Newfoundland https://research.library.mun.ca/5666/1/Toumishey_LauraHope.pdf https://research.library.mun.ca/5666/3/Toumishey_LauraHope.pdf Toumishey, Laura Hope <https://research.library.mun.ca/view/creator_az/Toumishey=3ALaura_Hope=3A=3A.html> (1978) Punishing the pregnant innocents : single pregnancy in St. John's, Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland. thesis_license Thesis NonPeerReviewed 1978 ftmemorialuniv 2023-09-03T06:45:27Z The primary objectives of this study are to determine, from data obtained from 40 single pregnant girls in the city of St. John's, -- (a) to what extent social and emotional factors are inhibitory to a healthy pregnancy outcome for all persons concerned. -- (b) whether the established and generally accepted social norms for sex-related behavior are relevant to the attitudes and behaviour of young people living in St. John's today. -- The primary concerns of those interviewed, were closely related to their own perceptions of anticipated responses from significant others, i.e. parents, sexual partners and social groups etc. Data analysis also served to identify significant emotional milestones along the route to, and during an illegitimate pregnancy. -- A discussion of the role and responsibility of any society, mainly through use of the family, to prepare its youth for future sex relationships, motherhood and parenthood revealed that, in reality, there were serious discrepancies, irrelevancies and serious shortcomings in attitudes and programming within the existing and generally accepted socialization process. -- A breakdown of this process served to better isolate and identify the level of "educational" input provided for each of three major age groups. These were pre-puberty, early adolescence and young adulthood. A fourth group, single pregnant women, was then discussed to determine if the process, so described, plus the existing programming and services currently provided in this community were sufficiently adequate to (a) ensure the conformity of today’s youth to the established sex-related behavioral norms and (b) provide for the re-entry, without social and emotional jeopardy of those who inadvertently, temporarily, and sometimes deliberately, deviate from these norms. -- Grounded Theory as described by Glaser and Strauss (1967)¹ was used to generate a formal theory called - Punishing the Pregnant Innocents. The extent to which specific punishments are imposed upon these "social deviants" are described in ... Thesis Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland: Research Repository Strauss ENVELOPE(-73.182,-73.182,-71.649,-71.649)
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description The primary objectives of this study are to determine, from data obtained from 40 single pregnant girls in the city of St. John's, -- (a) to what extent social and emotional factors are inhibitory to a healthy pregnancy outcome for all persons concerned. -- (b) whether the established and generally accepted social norms for sex-related behavior are relevant to the attitudes and behaviour of young people living in St. John's today. -- The primary concerns of those interviewed, were closely related to their own perceptions of anticipated responses from significant others, i.e. parents, sexual partners and social groups etc. Data analysis also served to identify significant emotional milestones along the route to, and during an illegitimate pregnancy. -- A discussion of the role and responsibility of any society, mainly through use of the family, to prepare its youth for future sex relationships, motherhood and parenthood revealed that, in reality, there were serious discrepancies, irrelevancies and serious shortcomings in attitudes and programming within the existing and generally accepted socialization process. -- A breakdown of this process served to better isolate and identify the level of "educational" input provided for each of three major age groups. These were pre-puberty, early adolescence and young adulthood. A fourth group, single pregnant women, was then discussed to determine if the process, so described, plus the existing programming and services currently provided in this community were sufficiently adequate to (a) ensure the conformity of today’s youth to the established sex-related behavioral norms and (b) provide for the re-entry, without social and emotional jeopardy of those who inadvertently, temporarily, and sometimes deliberately, deviate from these norms. -- Grounded Theory as described by Glaser and Strauss (1967)¹ was used to generate a formal theory called - Punishing the Pregnant Innocents. The extent to which specific punishments are imposed upon these "social deviants" are described in ...
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Toumishey, Laura Hope <https://research.library.mun.ca/view/creator_az/Toumishey=3ALaura_Hope=3A=3A.html> (1978) Punishing the pregnant innocents : single pregnancy in St. John's, Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
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