Fertility Practitioners’ Coping Strategies When Faced with Intra-Role Conflict from Screening Aspiring Single Mothers by Choice

Women without a partner can become single mothers by choice through the use of fertility treatments. In Belgium, the decision to accept a candidate single mother by choice rests with the fertility clinic’s multidisciplinary team of fertility practitioners. As a result, the fertility practitioners fu...

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Autores principales:	Paulien Hertogs, Dries Van Gasse, Sascha Spikic, Dimitri Mortelmans
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Publicado:	MDPI AG 2021
Materias:	(clinical) gatekeeping fertility single mother by choice (SMC) solo mother Social Sciences H
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:c8ae9b887443471a8facb50e6acec8ae2021-11-25T18:59:52ZFertility Practitioners’ Coping Strategies When Faced with Intra-Role Conflict from Screening Aspiring Single Mothers by Choice10.3390/socsci101104382076-0760https://doaj.org/article/c8ae9b887443471a8facb50e6acec8ae2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/10/11/438https://doaj.org/toc/2076-0760Women without a partner can become single mothers by choice through the use of fertility treatments. In Belgium, the decision to accept a candidate single mother by choice rests with the fertility clinic’s multidisciplinary team of fertility practitioners. As a result, the fertility practitioners fulfil a gatekeeping role. However, this can cause an intra-role conflict as the responsibility to select the best fitting candidates is at odds with the responsibility to help patients. In this explorative study, we examine how fertility practitioners cope with the strain resulting from intra-role conflict in the decision-making process regarding single motherhood by choice in Belgium. The findings showed that practitioners appear to mainly resort to problem-focused coping, by constructing a grassroots criteria list and by shifting their role from screening agent to counsellor. These results are based on ten open in-depth interviews with fertility practitioners employed in the multidisciplinary teams of fertility centers, using a reflexive interview lead.Paulien HertogsDries Van GasseSascha SpikicDimitri MortelmansMDPI AGarticle(clinical) gatekeepingfertilitysingle mother by choice (SMC)solo motherSocial SciencesHENSocial Sciences, Vol 10, Iss 438, p 438 (2021)
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spellingShingle	(clinical) gatekeeping fertility single mother by choice (SMC) solo mother Social Sciences H Paulien Hertogs Dries Van Gasse Sascha Spikic Dimitri Mortelmans Fertility Practitioners’ Coping Strategies When Faced with Intra-Role Conflict from Screening Aspiring Single Mothers by Choice
description	Women without a partner can become single mothers by choice through the use of fertility treatments. In Belgium, the decision to accept a candidate single mother by choice rests with the fertility clinic’s multidisciplinary team of fertility practitioners. As a result, the fertility practitioners fulfil a gatekeeping role. However, this can cause an intra-role conflict as the responsibility to select the best fitting candidates is at odds with the responsibility to help patients. In this explorative study, we examine how fertility practitioners cope with the strain resulting from intra-role conflict in the decision-making process regarding single motherhood by choice in Belgium. The findings showed that practitioners appear to mainly resort to problem-focused coping, by constructing a grassroots criteria list and by shifting their role from screening agent to counsellor. These results are based on ten open in-depth interviews with fertility practitioners employed in the multidisciplinary teams of fertility centers, using a reflexive interview lead.
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author	Paulien Hertogs Dries Van Gasse Sascha Spikic Dimitri Mortelmans
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title	Fertility Practitioners’ Coping Strategies When Faced with Intra-Role Conflict from Screening Aspiring Single Mothers by Choice
title_short	Fertility Practitioners’ Coping Strategies When Faced with Intra-Role Conflict from Screening Aspiring Single Mothers by Choice
title_full	Fertility Practitioners’ Coping Strategies When Faced with Intra-Role Conflict from Screening Aspiring Single Mothers by Choice
title_fullStr	Fertility Practitioners’ Coping Strategies When Faced with Intra-Role Conflict from Screening Aspiring Single Mothers by Choice
title_full_unstemmed	Fertility Practitioners’ Coping Strategies When Faced with Intra-Role Conflict from Screening Aspiring Single Mothers by Choice
title_sort	fertility practitioners’ coping strategies when faced with intra-role conflict from screening aspiring single mothers by choice
publisher	MDPI AG
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/c8ae9b887443471a8facb50e6acec8ae
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Fertility Practitioners’ Coping Strategies When Faced with Intra-Role Conflict from Screening Aspiring Single Mothers by Choice

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