title: Desire of pregnancy and desire of motherhood. Its sociocultural evolution.
abstract: Nowadays pregnancy is considered a psychosomatic experience during which personal and existential factors interact with cultural and environmental ones. This very important event causes conflictual conditions. In fact as regards to become a mother a different psychological attitude corresponds to a social-cultural change (historical environment, contraception, geographical area, etc.) that has shifted the objectives and the duties giving the woman the "theoretical" possibility to decide of her nature autonomally. This problem issues from two desires: the pregnancy and the maternity ones. Taking into account this attitude in 1200 women attending the Obstetric Psychoprophylaxis classes in 1982 at the Obstetric and Gynecological Department of Padua University, the Authors have pointed out interesting aspects concerning the way the woman today considers the conception and the pregnancy.
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D012922:Social Change