Including non -voluntary children comparison between Israel and the United States in international study

All Rosh Hashanah, annual reports focus on birth rates, average children for each family, and other population growth data. However, there is another aspect of these statistics: experiences of not entering children, as people who want to be parents of medical, social or institutional causes cannot.

A new study reveals that these experiences are much more prevalent than usually believed, especially among the LGBTQ+community. Researchers note that the international comparison of this phenomenon is important, as the two countries differ widely in the degree of encouragement they provide for childbearing, the assistance they provide to potential fathers, and the barriers they set and that can hinder the way to paternity. The current study compared the responses of participants in the United States with those in Israel.

The study was led by Professor Jiva Xinkman Lashburg of the University of Reichmann and Dr. Doyle Tate from the University of North Florida. The researchers assumed that the Americans would report higher rates than non -Israeli children, due to the limited government assistance in the United States compared to family support policies in Israel. They also assumed that LGBTQ+ members will face higher rates than insecure children, given the history of discriminatory legislation and the institutional and social challenges they face on a journey to paternity.

The study surveyed 1,739 young people without children – 1026 from the United States and 713 from Israel. The sample included both men, women and respondents of various sexual trends: in Israel, 387 was determined as two different sexes and 326 as LGBTQ+, while in the United States 604 it was identified as two different sexes and 422 as LGBTQ+.

The researchers also predicted, the results showed that the absence of uncomfortable children were higher among the participants from the United States more than among the people from Israel. In addition, in line with their hypothesis, via the entire sample, the respondents told LGBTQ+ about their phenomenon at a rate is much higher than that of two different sexes: 60 % compared to 38 %, respectively.

The most prominent outstanding results in the study are the gap between groups in the countries concerned: in the United States, the contrast was moderate – 52 % of the respondents from LGBTQ+ compared to 44 % of two different sexes who reported the inappropriate childhood – when the difference in Israel was much greater: 68 % of the gay respondents (LGBTQ+)

Professor Jiva Xinkmann from the College of Medicine in Dina Recatani said, “The results show that general policies that support paternity and motherhood-such as those in force in Israel, where there is widespread access to the funds funded by the state-can reduce the experiences of lack of birth in the public. The institutional and social barriers that seem to increase their feeling of insecure children compared to different sexes Various.

Published in Marriage and Family MagazineThe study indicates that the adoption of the widespread Porntist policies and practices in the United States can help reduce involuntary lack of childhood, while in Israel, the main challenge is to create equality in parentalism for the whole population.