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AbstractAs they respond to children's emotions, mothers socialize children's emerging emotion regulation. Mothers' own autobiographical narratives likely reflect in part habitual ways of expressing and managing emotions—ways that may in turn influence the way mothers respond to their children's emotions. We examined features of mothers' narratives about parental pride and regret experiences, and assessed whether these were associated with parental socialization of emotion and the emotion regulation repertoire of their children. Two hundred thirty‐seven mothers with children ranging from 8 to 17 years of age provided two narratives about parental pride and parental regret experiences. Parental emotion socialization and children's emotion regulation were assessed via self‐ and informant‐report using a multi‐measure, multi‐observer approach. We found that features of the way mothers narrated their experiences with a particular child related to their parenting of that child, and that child's emotion regulation. The findings are discussed in terms of their implications for emotion‐related parenting, and the potential importance of parent narratives.

Objective: In this first study of its kind in Spain, we analyse the scope of and reasons underlying paternal regret. Background: Research on parental regret, a subject only recently broached by analysts, tends to focus on motherhood. Regretting fatherhood has been only scantly researched. In this study we test the effects of intensive fathering, the use of different care resources, economic and employment conditions, and satisfaction with respondents' partnership on their regret for having children. Method: The analysis is based on an online survey of parents of children under 7 years old (QUIDAN Survey) A total of 3100 parents were interviewed, with the sample evenly distributed by sex and youngest child's age, and proportional by parents' highest level of schooling and place of residence. The weighted subsample used in this article included 1374 fathers. The hypotheses are tested with logistic regression. Results: The social factors associated with a greater likelihood of regret include circumstances that challenge men's role as primary breadwinner, a negative impact of fatherhood on job career, a high dependence on grandparents for balancing working and private lives and partnership dissatisfaction. A relationship between intensive fathering and regret could not be observed. Conclusion: The findings show the extent of paternal regret to be fairly limited, similar to the proportion reported for maternal regret. Paternal regret is mainly associated with family and working circumstances.

In Finland, becoming a mother is often constructed as an individual choice that ultimately leads to personal fulfilment and happiness, despite the occasional 'negative' feelings associated with motherhood such as exhaustion, frustration and tiredness. In this cultural atmosphere, maternal regret continues to be a subject that is hidden, forbidden and rarely scrutinised. It is perhaps surprising that in one of the world's most gender egalitarian countries, which is also perceived to be one of the best countries in which to be a mother, women still testify that motherhood is limited to survival. We argue that, somewhat paradoxically, discussing the negative emotions of motherhood might be particularly difficult in a relatively gender egalitarian society, where family policies are (by international comparison) fairly comprehensive and where becoming a mother is strongly constructed as a 'free choice'. These discourses often hide the fact that parenthood in Finland is still extremely gendered. Finland's masculine work culture with long working hours, the tendency for mothers and fathers not to take equal parental leave periods, and the cuts to welfare state services for families all contribute to the gendered division of parenthood. What are rarely discussed in connection with the struggles of mothering are political demands to improve gender equality. This chapter analyses discussion of maternal regret on an anonymous Finnish online discussion board. In comments from regretful mothers, motherhood is constructed as all-consuming, draining work. Hiding regret, especially from children, is seen as essential, as these mothers fear that their lack of 'correct' feelings will have adverse effects on their children. In comments responding to these regretful mothers, disbelief is a recurring theme with commenters suggesting that regretful mothers have misrecognised self-inflicted exhaustion or postnatal depression as regret. Such individualising responses depoliticise regret, contributing to the maintenance of taboos around ...

INTRODUCTION: Many parents who choose hypospadias repair for their son experience decisional conflict and regret. The utilization of a shared decision-making process may address the issue of decisional conflict and regret in hypospadias repair by engaging both parents and physicians in decision-making. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to develop a theoretical framework of the parental decision-making process about hypospadias surgery to inform the development of a decision aid. STUDY DESIGN: We conducted semi-structured interviews with parents of children with hypospadias to explore their role as proxy-decision-makers, inquiring about their emotions/concerns, informational needs and external/internal influences. We conducted interviews until no new themes were identified, analyzing them iteratively using open, axial and selective coding. The iterative approach entails a cyclical process of conducting interviews and analyzing transcripts while the data collection process is ongoing. This allows the researcher to make adjustments to the interview guide as necessary based on preliminary data analysis in order to explore themes that emerge from early interviews with parents. We used grounded theory methods to develop an explanation of the surgical decision-making process. RESULTS: We interviewed 16 mothers and 1 father of 7 preoperative and 9 postoperative patients (n=16) with distal (8) and proximal (8) meatal locations. We identified four stages of the surgical decision-making process: 1) processing the diagnosis, 2) synthesizing information, 3) processing emotions and concerns and 4) finalizing the decision (Extended Summary Figure). We identified core concepts in each stage of the decision-making process. Primary concerns included anxiety/fear about the child not waking up from anesthesia and their inability to be present in the operating room. Parents incorporated information from the Internet, medical providers and their social network as they sought to relieve confusion and anxiety while building ...

This longitudinal study examined how emerging adults psychologically distance themselves from parents. Every week during their first semester at college, participants ( n = 71, Mage= 18 years [ SD = 0.48]) read hypothetical vignettes describing emotionally salient situations they could encounter at college. Participants then provided information about whether they would regret not being in immediate contact with parents versus peers when dealing with the aftermath of these situations. Results suggested that participants were separating themselves from parents in a dynamic manner over time, which was revealed in varying levels of regret for not possibly being in immediate contact with parents following emotional events. Moreover, compared to participants with negative representational models of parents, participants with positive models reported more consistent patterns of regret for not having immediate parental contact. This study provides new insights into normative attachment dynamics beyond childhood and how emerging adults reorganize their attachment hierarchies.

Le règlement Bruxelles IIter est entré en application le 1er août 2022. Il reprend les acquis des règlements Bruxelles II et Bruxelles IIbis qu'il tend à améliorer. Certaines dispositions restent inchangées, ce qui n'est pas sans susciter de regrets, notamment pour les règles de compétence en matière de divorce. D'autres tiennent compte des apports jurisprudentiels ou visent à améliorer le fonctionnement des règles en pratique. Le présent ouvrage s'emploie, sous la forme d'un commentaire article par article, à présenter l'ensemble de ces dispositions qui touchent tout à la fois à la séparation des couples, à l'attribution et à l'exercice de la responsabilité parentale et à la problématique spécifique de l'enlèvement international d'enfants. Il comporte en outre quelques présentations transversales qui permettent de placer la focale sur un point particulier. Les commentaires présentent, au-delà d'une analyse descriptive de la règle, son contexte et anticipent d'éventuelles difficultés d'application. Ils intègrent les références doctrinales et jurisprudentielles les plus pertinentes et tiennent compte de la nécessaire articulation du texte avec les autres instruments de droit international privé

###EgeUn### ; Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze parents' intentions toward the anti-consumption of junk food for their children. The paper incorporated the theory of planned behavior (TPB) using two external factors, which previously have not been investigated together. Design/methodology/approach: A questionnaire was designed from previous studies consisting of the constructs of the TPB (intention, attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control) and two external factors (anticipated regret and perceived risk). An online survey was conducted among 392 participants. Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling were used to test the hypotheses. Findings: All hypotheses were supported. Attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavioral control affected parental intentions toward the anti-consumption of junk food. The two external factors of the model also affected parental intentions toward the anti-consumption of junk food. Research limitations/implications: There were four limitations regarding participants, the research model and product type. Practical implications: Junk food producers, sellers, fast food restaurants and public policies should encourage healthy lifestyles, particularly for children. Junk food producers and fast food restaurants should offer healthier nutritional options. Governmental policies should include legal regulations to restrict marketing strategies for unhealthy products. Parents, as the primary influencers of children, should be educated regarding the anti-consumption of junk food. Originality/value: The study contributed to the anti-consumption literature by analyzing buying intentions toward junk food within the concept of anti-consumption, analyzing intentions by adding anticipated regret and perceived risk to the TPB model and analyzing the effects of perceived risk on anticipated regret. © 2019, Emerald Publishing Limited.

###EgeUn### ; Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze parents' intentions toward the anti-consumption of junk food for their children. The paper incorporated the theory of planned behavior (TPB) using two external factors, which previously have not been investigated together. Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire was designed from previous studies consisting of the constructs of the TPB (intention, attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control) and two external factors (anticipated regret and perceived risk). An online survey was conducted among 392 participants. Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling were used to test the hypotheses. Findings All hypotheses were supported. Attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavioral control affected parental intentions toward the anti-consumption of junk food. The two external factors of the model also affected parental intentions toward the anti-consumption of junk food. Research limitations/implications There were four limitations regarding participants, the research model and product type. Practical implications Junk food producers, sellers, fast food restaurants and public policies should encourage healthy lifestyles, particularly for children. Junk food producers and fast food restaurants should offer healthier nutritional options. Governmental policies should include legal regulations to restrict marketing strategies for unhealthy products. Parents, as the primary influencers of children, should be educated regarding the anti-consumption of junk food. Originality/value The study contributed to the anti-consumption literature by analyzing buying intentions toward junk food within the concept of anti-consumption, analyzing intentions by adding anticipated regret and perceived risk to the TPB model and analyzing the effects of perceived risk on anticipated regret.

This qualitative investigation explored the identity development of emerging adults who revealed their parents' negative experiences. Participants were 169 Chinese college students ( M = 19.83, SD = 1.19, 76.92% women) from southwest China. Thematic analysis of the data which were collected in December 2022 suggests that the participants revealed various parental negative experiences including hardships and poverty, failure and regrets, as well as family scandals and interpersonal conflicts. The participants strived to make meaning out of such experiences and looked into the future to make a difference based on their meaning-making capacities. Such a process leads to both personal identity exploration and family identity negotiation which become foundations for their future family narratives. We created a model of personal and family identity development to capture the process of identity development in revealing parental negative experiences. The findings of this study contribute to the scholarship on family narratives and identity development.

AbstractObjectiveThis study examined mothers' continuing relationships with their child lost to cancer in South Korea.BackgroundParents who lose a child to cancer experience a deep level of grief and a continuous, seemingly never‐ending grieving process.MethodFifteen semistructured interviews were conducted with mothers who had lost a child to cancer. Participants were recruited from a support group for bereaved parents. Most participants were currently unemployed, and the elapsed time since the child's death ranged from 8 months to 13 years. Inductive thematic analysis was conducted to identify themes.ResultsWe identified three overlapping themes––regret, longing, and connectedness––and eight subthemes. One major source of regret was focusing too much on pursuing a curative treatment to prevent their child's death and forgetting to show their love toward their dying child. Mothers identified longing for their child as an inexplicably intense and ever‐present loss that will only end with their death, when they will be reunited with their child. Mothers continued to live and communicate with their deceased child, imagining how their child would have grown up if they were still alive.ConclusionMothers who lost a child to cancer used continuing bonds to maintain their parental identity and relationship with the child. Maintaining bonds with deceased children can take various forms and affect coping in the parents' bereavement process.ImplicationsHealth professionals should support continuing bonds that may help parents construct meaning while simultaneously promoting improved adaptation to the death of a child to cancer in the grieving process.

In the past 2 years, a record number of abortion restrictions have been proposed and enacted in the United States. Such restrictions include parental notification and consent laws, mandatory waiting periods, preabortion counseling, sonogram requirements, and restrictions on late-term abortions. These restrictions are often positioned in the language of informed consent with legislators and policymakers asserting that women regret abortions, are physically and psychologically harmed by them, and are advantaged by continuing their pregnancies to term. In this paper, I position these restrictions, as well as ideas about parenting, within a framework of pronatalism, an ideology that venerates parenting as normative and desirable, and generally disparages other choices surrounding reproductive choices, particularly for women. Research about the incidence and impact of abortion on women's lives, as well as the physiological, psychological, financial, and other effects of pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting on adults' well-being, is presented. Myths pertaining to abortion and parenting are explored. Recommendations for psychologists conclude the article. Adapted from the source document.

In the past 2 years, a record number of abortion restrictions have been proposed and enacted in the United States. Such restrictions include parental notification and consent laws, mandatory waiting periods, preabortion counseling, sonogram requirements, and restrictions on late‐term abortions. These restrictions are often positioned in the language of informed consent with legislators and policymakers asserting that women regret abortions, are physically and psychologically harmed by them, and are advantaged by continuing their pregnancies to term. In this paper, I position these restrictions, as well as ideas about parenting, within a framework of pronatalism, an ideology that venerates parenting as normative and desirable, and generally disparages other choices surrounding reproductive choices, particularly for women. Research about the incidence and impact of abortion on women's lives, as well as the physiological, psychological, financial, and other effects of pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting on adults' well‐being, is presented. Myths pertaining to abortion and parenting are explored. Recommendations for psychologists conclude the article.

Currently, 68 percent of Polish women declare that they do not want to have children, 13 percent of mothers regret having children, and over 6 percent experience parental burnout. A woman's decision to become a mother is not an easy one and is influenced by many factors. One of these factors can be considered the experiences of mothers close to the woman. The aim of the research was to determine what perinatal experiences and beliefs about childbirth first-time mothers can share with other women. Data were collected from 99 women (aged 22–36; M = 28; SD = 3) who had given birth to their first child in the last 26 months through structured interviews. They were asked about selected difficulties related to childbirth, conditions for natural childbirth, to retrospectively assess the level of knowledge about selected aspects of childbirth, and to evaluate the intensity of selected beliefs about it. 72 of the participants gave birth naturally, 12 through unplanned cesarean section, and 15 through planned cesarean section (including 2 "on demand"). Only one of the participants experienced a complication-free natural childbirth, received exhaustive medical information from the staff, full and adequate support from her partner, and gave birth to a child who scored 10 points on the Apgar scale. Eight women giving birth naturally and seven after a cesarean section declared very positive feelings about childbirth, five declared very negative feelings, and the intensity of both positive and negative feelings was within average limits, with moderately higher positive feelings noted. First-time mothers had the lowest level of knowledge regarding the effects of artificial oxytocin (pain, risk), which was administered to as many as 42 participants. The highest level of knowledge was related to possible complications. The strongest belief was that natural childbirth is a better way for a child to come into the world than cesarean section. The weakest belief was that cesarean section is a better way of childbirth for the child than natural childbirth.

While Louisianans should celebrate the Legislature's
overturning Democrat Gov. John Bel Edwards'
veto of HB 648 that protects children from unwarranted medical interventions,
they should mourn the fact that legislators failed in their responsibilities to
uphold parents' constitutional rights to protect children from harm potentially
brought about by ideologue educators and politicians.

HB 648
prohibits (from the start of next year) surgical or chemical sex alterations of
minors, correctly understanding research shows a significant
proportion of children who do this express regrets and that a significant
proportion have underlying psychiatric issues that don't improve even after
these interventions or non-medical interventions. The outright ban equips
parents to safeguard their children better from attempts outside the family to play
to children's transitory thinking, which because their typically underdeveloped
emotional and intellectual capacity is suspect, if not goad them to embark upon
irreversible interventions.

HB 466 and HB 81, also vetoed by Edwards, would
have afforded other kinds of parental protections to children. HB 466 would have
prevented school employees from psychological coaching of students about their
gender identity in ways inconsistent with state instructional standards and
protect school employees and students from confusion over pronoun use of
students, while HB
81 would have covered pronoun usage like HB 466.

Both barely came up short of successful overrides
in the House of Representatives, because Democrats Roy Daryl Adams,
Chad Brown,
Robby Carter,
Mack Cormier,
and Republicans Mary
DuBuisson, Barbara
Freiberg, Stephanie
Hilferty, Richard
Nelson, and Tanner
Magee voted against, some of them reversing affirmative votes from when the
bills originally passed. In addition, the GOP's Paula Davis
and Joe Stagni
strategically absented themselves from the veto session, which counts as
negative votes. At present, all but Nelson and Magee seek reelection this fall.

Voters need to take note of their failed
performances. Increasingly, ideologically-driven school boards and educators
have tried to use schools as instruments to propagate the levelling that the
construct of gender implies, maintaining that people can declare themselves
whatever they want to be and force the world to follow that regardless of the
consequences to themselves and others. It's part of a larger
assault on the idea that universal truths exist that shape our understanding
of the human condition and human behavior, including moral judgments derived
thereof.

Worse, some schools and elected official attempt
this surreptitiously. A growing
number of schools countenance illegal and unconstitutional means to hide acts
from parents about which they may disapprove, including those naming
conventions and steering of children into wanting to adopt gender roles
inconsistent with their actual sex that HB 81 and particularly HB 466 would
have prevented. This runs counter to jurisprudence first established over two
centuries ago as well as existing law recognizing that parents, not the state,
have custodianship over their children, and creates a legal fiction that
children enjoy a right privacy related to their parents. Nevertheless, special
interests actively advocate that schools and school boards flout this with incorrect
legal theories, and increasingly more have.

And this has harmful real-world consequences. Even
though these activists allege that not to keep "not supportive" parents in the
dark puts children's safety in peril, recent research
reveals that social transition in itself was not associated with better mental health
outcomes, and also suggested the possibility that concealment of gender
identity, including from parents, may actually contribute to a child's
distress. Policy-makers must recognize that in almost every case a child's
viewing of herself as a gender construct differing from her sex is a symptom of
a disease, not the disease.

Fortunately, no known instance as yet has emerged
in Louisiana of a school or district with a policy engaging in facilitating on-demand
gender affirmation; some states have dozens, even hundreds, of schools affected
with nationwide over a thousand districts and nearly 18,000 schools at present known
to have such policies. But it's best not to tempt fate and allow the harmful practice
to place a foothold anywhere in the Bayou State, and this doesn't mean it doesn't
happen in individual classrooms without parents' consent.

Passing a bill like HB 466 as soon as possible obviates
this troubling situation. If to do so means electorates denying troublesome and
unwise legislators a return to Baton Rouge, so be it.