The Impact Of Infertility On Women’s Life Experiences In Two Nigerian Communities

The Impact Of Infertility On Women’s Life Experiences In Two Nigerian Communities

Chapter One

Preface

Background to the Study

There’s adding recognition in the social wisdom literature that gravidity is a ruinous problem for women, particularly in the high- fertility environment ofsub-Saharan Africa. Anyhow of the medical causes of gravidity, women in utmost African societies suffer grief, social smirch, acceptance and frequently serious profitable privation. A former composition demonstrated that these rigors vary across different artistic surrounds, given that institutional settings impact the meanings and consequences of the condition. In that paper the focus was on these settings in two southern Nigerian communities and a number of particularly salient differences between the two communities in their impact on community responses to infertile women were proved.

The communities are Amakiri( alias), an Ijo community in Delta State, and Lopon( alias), a Yakurr community in Cross River State. The major difference between these points is that descent in Amakiri is patrilineal, traced through the father’s side, whereas in Lopon it’s double unilineal, traced through both parents ’ sides. In addition, high situations of gravidity are historically proved in Lopon, whereas gravidity situations in Amakiri are fairly low. The findings indicated that grounded on these differences, responses to gravidity were vastly more negative in Amakiri than in Lopon.

In the current paper, the focus is first on the gests of individual women with gravidity, deduced from in- depth life history interviews in each community, and second, using check data, these life gests are compared with those of their rich counterparts. Specifically, how the differences in the lineage structure in the two communities impact on the childless and subfertile women’s gests in their connubial and interpersonal relations and socioeconomic conditioning are proved.

In this way, the study distinguishes between women who are childless and those with subfertility and compares them with high- fertility women. It’s hypothecated that the gests of women who are childless or have subfertility in Lopon will be less negative than of those in Amakiri, given the differences in the institutional settings and the historically evolved emblematic meaning of the infertile condition.

The purpose of this study is to explore the phase women endure from being childless and to punctuate some of the complications bolstering Gravidity and its impacts on wedded couple, and family in Amakiri and Lopon communities and also to gain deeper sapience into how women incorporated this experience into their lives and connections and how they began to produce a unborn life without their own natural children.

Grounded on the trends of Gravidity in Nigeria, this design has been accepted to ascertain the extent of peoples ’ perception on the impact of Gravidity on involuntary childless couples in Nigeria using Amakiri and Lopon communities, Nigeria as a case study.

Statement of the Problem

The number of childless couples is extensively on the increase, According to Ugwuanyi( 2000), this is apparent to the fact that attempts to initiate a move which would have been directed towards relinquishment is taken with serious resistance in some places like Nigeria substantially by couples without indeed a child.

According to Dike( 2013) most couples are childless as a result of the degree of their rebelliousness when they were youthful or during their immature age and unattached, similar as lawless use of medicines in order to avoid gestation, smoking of cigrates, cocaine, and marijuanae.t.c.

The World Health Organization( 2014) stated that involuntary childless couples suffer from Gravidity for so numerous reason similar as medicine abuse, hard medicines input, contraception, multitudinous revocations, and genetically inherited sickness that could lead to low sperm count and utmost cases cerebral problems.

According to Nwapa( 2004), some couples attribute to their problem of Gravidity to the supernatural, the stopgap in God that gives children to flash back them at the applicable time while some couples generally fall back to their fetish life consulting their gods to seek results to their problem or appealing their gods as a means to cleanse them from similar dilemma. Nwapa also outline that Gravidity can also be seen as consequences from the gods when an abomination or taboo has been committed, there can also be death of being children rendering the involuntary childless couples childless( Nwapa 2004).

Involuntary childless couples faces a lot of problems and demarcation, from the society due to the fact that the involuntary childless couples can not propagate but in the same tone the society also suffer 30 of this Gravidity problem, there will be low force and shifting number of people in the pool and the social structure won’t serve duly( Hales 2000).

The experimenter carried out a check to find out the factors that induce Gravidity, origin of Gravidity in Amakiri and Lopon communities and people’s perception about Gravidity and its goods, and recrimination on women in Nigeria using Amakiri and Lopon communities Nigeria as a case study with the view of proffering result by ways of recommendation and intervention.

Exploration Questions

The following exploration questions have been put forward to companion this study.

1. What are the causes of Gravidity in Amakiri and Lopon communities?

2. What are the social counteraccusations of Gravidity on involuntary childless couples in Amakiri and Lopon communities?

3. What are the artistic counteraccusations of Gravidity on involuntary childless couples in Amakiri and Lopon communities?

4. What are the cerebral counteraccusations of Gravidity on involuntary childless couples in Amakiri and Lopon communities?

5. What are the comprehensions of the public towards childless couples in Amakiri and Lopon communities?

6. What are the results to Gravidity problem in Amakiri and Lopon communities?

objects of the Study

The general ideal of this study is to examine the impacts of Gravidity on wedded couple in Amakiri and Lopon communities of Delta and Cross River state, independently. Specifically, the following objects will be treated

1. To find out what are the major causes of Gravidity in Amakiri and Lopon communities

2. To indentify the social recrimination of Gravidity on involuntary childless couples in Amakiri and Lopon communities

3. To indentify the artistic recrimination of Gravidity on involuntary childless couples in Amakiri and Lopon communities

4. To find out the perception of people towards Gravidity in Amakiri and Lopon communities

5. To proffer possible results on how to annihilate Gravidity problem in Amakiri and Lopon communities.

Significance of Study

This study has both theoretical and practical significance.

Theoretically, the study will give the comprehensions of people towards childless couples in Amakiri and Lopon communities. The study will give the introductory accoutrements which the experimenter in this content will find precious. This study will add to the being body of knowledge on medical sociology. It’ll produce room for farther exploration on the socio-artistic impact of Gravidity on involuntary childless couples in other areas. It’ll also give applicable data on how Gravidity creates problems in the family and Amakiri and Lopon communities at large. It’ll help to expand their

knowledge on the conception and impact of Gravidity on involuntary childless couples in Amakiri and Lopon communities and beyond. It’ll also give accoutrements for experimenters to anchor their studies and also give them with applicable literatures for analysis and review of applicable literature for analysis and review.

virtually, the study will be of great applicability to scholars of sociology. The study will give useful information that can be used by health care providers. The exploration work is of significance to the experimenter as it’s a introductory demand for the award of a university Bachelorette of Science degree Findings of this study will give useful information that will shade more light on the difficulties encountered by childless couple and proffer possible results to this problem.

Compass of Study

This exploration work is on the impact of gravidity on women’s life gests in two Nigerian communities. The study aims at catching on people’s opinions and perception about the impact of Gravidity on wedded couple. The geographical compass of this study is Amakiri and Lopon communities located in Delta and Cross River independently.

Description of Terms

Relinquishment The voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one’s own child through legal term.

Childless The absence of children in a family performing from the incapability to conceive a child by wedded couple or death of being children.

Couples This refers to a man and woman united and fairly bounded in marriage.

generality This refers to the act of conceiving; the fertilization of an ovum by a sperm to form a zygote.

Culture The trades, customs, beliefs, values, geste and material objects that constitute peoples ’ way of life.

Fertility The condition, or the degree of being rich

Gravidity The incapability to conceive after a period of 12 months of willful and vulnerable sexual intercourse.

Lineage Descent in a line from a common ancestor; descending line of seed or thrusting line of lineage.

Sexual intercourse The physical exertion of coitus played by involuntary childless couples in order for them to produce children or seed.