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‘Our Family Picture Is A Little Hint Of Heaven’: Race, Religion And Selective Reproduction In Us ‘Embryo Adoption’, Risa Cromer Aug 2020

‘Our Family Picture Is A Little Hint Of Heaven’: Race, Religion And Selective Reproduction In Us ‘Embryo Adoption’, Risa Cromer

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People use selective reproductive technologies (SRT) in various family-making practices to assist with decisions about which children should be born. The practice of ‘embryo adoption’, a form of embryo donation developed by white American evangelical Christians in the late 1990s, is a novel site for reconceptualizing SRT and examining how they function among users. Based on ethnographic research conducted between 2008 and 2018 on US ‘embryo adoption’, this study provides an anthropological analysis of media produced by and about one white evangelical couple's race-specific preferences for embryos from donors of colour. This article shows how racializing processes and religious beliefs …


Examining The Factor Structure Of The Home Mathematics Environment To Delineate Its Role In Predicting Preschool Numeracy, Mathematical Language, And Spatial Skills, David J. Purpura, Yemimah A. King, Emily Rolan, Caroline Byrd Hornburg, Sara A. Schmitt, Sara A. Hart, Colleen M. Ganley Aug 2020

Examining The Factor Structure Of The Home Mathematics Environment To Delineate Its Role In Predicting Preschool Numeracy, Mathematical Language, And Spatial Skills, David J. Purpura, Yemimah A. King, Emily Rolan, Caroline Byrd Hornburg, Sara A. Schmitt, Sara A. Hart, Colleen M. Ganley

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A growing body of evidence suggests that the ways in which parents and preschool children interact in terms of home-based mathematics activities (i.e., the home mathematics environment; HME) is related to children’s mathematics development (e.g., primarily numeracy skills and spatial skills); however, this body of evidence is mixed with some research supporting the relation and others finding null effects. Importantly, few studies have explicitly examined the factor structure of the HME and contrasted multiple hypothesized models. To develop more precise models of how the HME supports children’s mathematics development, the structure of the HME needs to be examined and linked …