WIC Hybrid Colloquium
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Kathleen Broussard
University of South Carolina
Ambivalent ideals and discordant intentions: A cognitive interview study of the fertility desires of sexual and gender minorities
Wednesday, 13 November 2024
11:00 – 12:00 (CET)
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The hybrid seminar will be held in person at
PSK Building, Georg Coch Platz 2, 1010 Vienna, meeting room 5, 4th floor
and online via Zoom.
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Abstract:
Declining fertility has prompted growing attention to unrealized fertility, when people have fewer children than they desire. This study interrogates the meaning and measurement
of unrealized fertility by comparing the goals of straight/cisgender and sexual and gender minorities (SGM), a group that experiences significant barriers to pregnancy and parenthood. Drawing from cognitive interviews with 31 U.S. adults, I analyze participant
responses to survey questions about their fertility ideals and intentions, paying particular attention to moments of uncertainty and contradiction and perceived barriers to childbearing. Relative to straight/cisgender participants, SGMs were more often ambivalent
in their fertility ideals and, when they desired a(nother) child, were less likely to intend to have one. Findings offer insight into the survey measurement of unrealized fertility; because fertility constraints impact goals (not just outcomes), more comprehensive
measurement is needed.
About the presenter:
Kathleen Broussard is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of South Carolina. Prior to joining the faculty at USC, she received her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. Her core
research agenda describes the social determinants of reproductive health desires, behaviors, and experiences. She employs a diverse set of methodological tools, including surveys, interviews, and content analysis, to understand how social institutions and
technologies shape people’s preferences for and experiences of contraception, abortion, pregnancy, and parenthood.
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