Table 2 Parents’ considerations for marriage, biology, and involvement as factors that should affect a partner’s decisional authority in periviable delivery decision making.
Overall | Prospective | Experienced | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Should decisional authority be affected: | Prospective (n = 60) | Experienced (n = 60) | p-value | Birthing parent (n = 30) | Partner (n = 30) | p-value | Birthing parent (n = 30) | Partner (n = 30) | p-value |
If the partner is married to the pregnant person? | 18 (30%) | 25 (41.7%) | 0.18 | 9 (30%) | 9 (30%) | 1.0 | 12 (40%) | 13 (43.3%) | 0.79 |
If the partner is biologically related to the child? | 38 (63.3%) | 40 (66.7%) | 0.70 | 19 (63.3%) | 19 (63.3%) | 1.0 | 20 (66.7%) | 20 (66.7%) | 1.0 |
Depending on the amount of involvement the partner has had with the pregnant patient during the pregnancy? | 39 (65%) | 41 (68.33%) | 0.60 | 18 (60%) | 21 (70%) | 0.42 | 23 (76.7%) | 18 (60%) | 0.22 |
Depending on the amount of involvement the partner intends to have in the child’s life? | 42 (70%) | 45 (75%) | 0.35 | 23 (76.7%) | 19 (63.3%) | 0.26 | 25 (83.3%) | 20 (66.7%) | 0.28 |
