Distributed Parenting: Teenage pregnancy in post-industrial areas in a social medicine perspective; A medical theory of social pain

‘Distributed Parenting’

Teenage pregnancy in post-industrial areas in a social medicine perspective;
A medical theory of social pain

Desmond P. Ryan

March 2001
©2001 Desmond Ryan. All rights reserved

Table of Contents

I PREFACE

II SUMMARY

1. Constitutional factors

2. Causal factors

3. Topographical factors

4. Pathological structural factors

5. Pathological-functional factors

6. Conclusion: the female family, ‘distributed parenting’ and ‘socioporosis’

III INTRODUCTION

Background: Family, lifestyle and health in Dundee

The Problem Stated

Aims, Approach, Methods

IV. THE MODEL: ‘DISTRIBUTED PARENTING’ AS A SOCIO MEDICAL CLINICAL ENTITY

Introduction

1. The research commission: form and implications

2. On the ‘clinical entity’: utility, form, and content

i. Constitutional factor

ii. environmental (etiologic) factor

iii. topographic factor

iv. pathologic-morphologic factor

v. pathologic-physiologic factor

1. SOCIAL-CONSTITUTIONAL FACTOR

Introduction: On social constitution

1.1 ‘Advanced marginality’ and ‘the ox-bow scheme’

1.1.1. Wage-labour as part of the problem

1.1.2. Functional disconnection from macro-economic trends

1.1.3. Territorial fixation and stigmatization

1.1.4. The dissolution of place

1.1.5. Loss of hinterland

1.1.6. Symbolic and social fragmentation

1.1.7. The ‘ox-bow scheme’

1.2 De-industrialization as de-urbanization

1.3 The ‘distributed parenting diathesis’

2. ENVIRONMENTAL (ETIOLOGIC) FACTORS

2.1. Redundancy

2.2 Dyseducation

2.3. Culture-In-Circumstances

2.3.1. Fatalism and the fading of the future

2.3.2. Privatization and the eclipse of community

2.4 Conclusion

3. TOPOGRAPHIC FACTOR

The reproduction system of the ox-bow scheme

3.1. Asocial sexual conceptions

3.2 An asocial idea of parenting

3.2.1. Pro-social

3.2.2. Asocial

3.3. Enlarged influence of peer group

3.4. Social reproduction/parenting work divided with public agencies

3.4.1. A culture of entitlement

3.4.2. A tradition of intervention

3.4.2.1 The maternal function

3.4.2.2 The paternal function

3.4.2.3 The home function

4. PATHOLOGIC-MORPHOLOGIC FACTOR (Structure)

4.1. The eclipse of marriage and family instability

4.2. The ‘female family’ and the eclipse of fatherhood

4.3. Role structure in distributed parenting: some cultural consequences

5. PATHOLOGIC-PHYSIOLOGIC FACTOR (Function)

Introduction

1. Mental Health

2. Consumption for comfort

a) eating

b) smoking

c) other drugs (including alcohol)

3. Consumption for image

4. Copelessness

6. CONCLUSION

The female family, distributed parenting and ‘socioporosis’

6.1. Distributed parenting’s effect on female adolescence: it is prematurely terminated

6.2. Distributed parenting’s effect on male adolescence: it is indefinitely extended

6.3 Distributed parenting’s toxin: uncoupled gender development leads to ‘socioporosis’

V NOTES

VI REFERENCES

‘Distributed Parenting’

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