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Week 15 Mind Map - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Important motivators are creating personal legacies and bonding with partners/future children
        
        Aspirations include having last name carried to next generation and preserving legacy (DAD??)
    - - Childbearing represents opportunity to escape and/or correct pat difficulties
      - Having a child would allow for personal reinvention
- - - - Desires for human connection. Influence of these feelings on decisions to bear children carried enormous weight during discussions with partners
    - - Desires to be a good father
      - Role as protector, general masculinity stuff
- - - - Strong negative views about abortion and contraception, particularly due to ideas about what is "natural" and not wanting to go against fate
    - - 1/4 of participants had deliberate discussions with partners and made deliberate decisions to delay childbearing so they could prepare for fatherhood
        
        Often due to financial worries and emotional/mental states