Parents' Ambivalence toward Their Newborn Baby: A Problem in Community and Professional Denial.

Gilliam, Kathleen

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ERIC Number: EJ250220

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Publication Date: 1981

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Parents' Ambivalence toward Their Newborn Baby: A Problem in Community and Professional Denial.

Gilliam, Kathleen

Child Welfare, v60 n7 p483-89 Jul-Aug 1981

Outlines the difficulties parents face in the first year after childbirth and describes a postpartum intervention program. Obstacles faced by the program due to cultural prohibitions against acknowledging parental ambivalence to a newborn child are also discussed. (Author/DB)

Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Depression (Psychology), Emotional Response, Infants, Intervention, Neonates, Parent Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Education, Program Descriptions

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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