{"id":9743,"date":"2009-06-15T10:17:29","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T15:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=9743"},"modified":"2012-10-19T04:01:46","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T09:01:46","slug":"is-pregnancy-scary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/06\/15\/is-pregnancy-scary\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Pregnancy Scary?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Pregnant? Scared?”\u00a0 They don’t mean hemorrhoids and contractions; they mean social opprobrium and economic ruin due to stingy social services.<\/p>\n

Jill at I Blame the Patriarchy<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n

There is only one reason that pregnancy should \u201cscare\u201d you: your culture hates women and kids. It especially hates teenage women. It especially hates pregnant teenage women. It especially hates teenage pregnant women who get knocked up under unapproved circumstances.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It had never occurred to me before that a generalized fear of getting pregnant is a culturally and historically contingent state of mind.\u00a0 But, of course, it is.<\/p>\n

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Lisa Wade is a\u00a0professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Pregnant? Scared?”\u00a0 They don’t mean hemorrhoids and contractions; they mean social opprobrium and economic ruin due to stingy social services. Jill at I Blame the Patriarchy writes: There is only one reason that pregnancy should \u201cscare\u201d you: your culture hates women and kids. It especially hates teenage women. It especially hates pregnant teenage women. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2083,223,29,36,329,55,2099,2105,778],"class_list":["post-9743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortionreproduction","tag-childrenyouth","tag-class","tag-economics","tag-emotion","tag-gender","tag-gender-childrenyouth","tag-gender-economics","tag-intersectionality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9743"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9746,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9743\/revisions\/9746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}