Table 1 Guiding questions
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1. | What is it like being a mother in Zambia today? |
2. | What is a good age to become a mother? |
3. | Why do you think people have children? |
4. | Does motherhood change women? |
5. | What impact does a woman becoming a mother have on her partner/husband? |
6. | ‘The way a woman goes through pregnancy and birth accounts for her position in the household and in the community’. What is your opinion? |
7. | How common is it for people to be unhappy when they are pregnant? |
8. | What does motherhood mean to you / what is motherhood about? |
9. | What is considered a good mother in our generation? |
10. | ‘Motherhood is considered to be the happiest moment’. What is your opinion? |
11. | Why do you think some people experience problems during motherhood? |
12. | ‘Life in Zambia has become unaffordable at the moment. Women have to work in order to survive. No wonder some decide to abandon their babies’. What do you think? |
13. | ‘In this age of HIV/AIDS it is advisable for women not to get pregnant and have children’. What is your opinion? |