IMPACT OF INFERTILITY ON WOMEN LIFE EXPERIENCES IN NIGERIA
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IMPACT OF INFERTILITY ON WOMEN LIFE EXPERIENCES
INFERTILITY’S IMPACT ON WOMEN’S LIFE EXPERIENCES IN TWO NIGERIAN COMMUNITIES
Introduction
In the social science literature, there is growing understanding that infertility is a terrible problem for women, particularly in the high-fertility context of Sub-Saharan Africa. Women in most African civilizations face bereavement, social humiliation, ostracism, and often severe economic distress, regardless of the medical causes of infertility.
A prior paper established that these difficulties differ across cultural contexts, owing to the fact that institutional environments alter the meanings and effects of the condition.
The focus of that paper was on these circumstances in two southern Nigerian villages, and a number of particularly noticeable disparities in their impact on community responses to infertile women were noted.
Amakiri (pseudonym), an Ijo community in Delta State, and Lopon (pseudonym), a Yakurr community in Cross River State, are the two communities. The main distinction between both communities is that descent in Amakiri is patrilineal, tracing back to the father’s side, but descent in Lopon is double unilineal, tracing back to both parents’ sides.
Furthermore, historically, large levels of infertility have been observed in Lopon, but infertility levels in Amakiri are very low. According to the research, responses to infertility were significantly more negative in Amakiri than in Lopon based on these factors.
The current paper focuses first on the experiences of individual women with infertility, as gathered from in-depth life history interviews in each town, and then compares their life experiences to those of their fertile counterparts using survey data.
It is specifically described how disparities in lineage structure in the two groups effect the lives of childless and subfertile women in their marriage and interpersonal relationships, as well as their economical activities.
In this method, the study distinguishes between childless women and those with subfertility and compares them to those with high fertility. Given the variations in institutional structures and the historically evolved symbolic meaning of the infertile condition,
it is hypothesised that the experiences of women who are childless or have subfertility in Lopon will be less negative than those in Amakiri.
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