Fatherhood and motherhood from conception Cover Image

Ojcostwo i macierzyństwo od poczęcia
Fatherhood and motherhood from conception

Author(s): Emilia Lichtenberg-Kokoszka
Subject(s): Health and medicine and law, Family and social welfare
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: motherhood; fatherhood; conceived child; parenthood; prenatal period of life;

Summary/Abstract: The subject of consideration is the earliest motherhood and fatherhood directly related to accompanying a child from conception. The aim is to present the process of growing a woman and a man to parenthood from the moment of conception to the birth of a child. The analysis of the literature on the subject allowed to conclude that nowadays, is increasingly considered are heard that motherhood and fatherhood begin at the moment of conception of a child, and not at its birth. Calling spouses the parents of a child in the prenatal period of life causes it to become a “full-fledged” child, not a “future” child, embryo or fetus. On the other hand, a woman and a man mature in their motherhood and fatherhood, and this process begins in both of them at conception, not at the birth of the child.

  • Issue Year: 18/2023
  • Issue No: 1 (33)
  • Page Range: 21-30
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish