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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “""Bad" Mothers"”.
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Bad Mothers in Eighteenth-Century Fiction
… is the female characters‘ shared experience as mothers and daughters. The narratives of these authors functioned as a means of critiquing the lack of maternal duty. With the exception of the Jean-Jacques Rousseau novel, the texts I discuss are written by English authors and centre on maternal …
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Controlling Bodies: Mothers, Adolescents, and Bad Advice
Since the 1990s, medical and media articles containing the word "obesity" inevitably included the word "epidemic" as well. These articles usually pointed to the exponential growth in overweight and obese persons in high-income and low-income countries alike. A recent field of literature called "fat …
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Good queen mothers, bad queen mothers : the theological presentation of the queen mother in 1 and 2 Kings.
… Kgs 11), and Nehushta (2 Kgs 24), the only queen mothers to appear outside of the formulas, as wicked and acting in the same manner as the kings who receive a negative or qualified evaluation of their reigns. The books of Jeremiah and Ezekiel depict Nehushta (Jer 13, 22, 29) and Hamutal (Ezek 19) …
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Transgressive women and bad mothers: Alternatives to traditional maternity in the Russian literary context
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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Manufacturing Ideologies of the "Bad" Mother in Ontario Child Welfare
… This ideology is apparent in the constructed “bad” mother label applied to mothers involved with Canadian child welfare, where 89% of involved caregivers are biological mothers (CIS 2008:40). Focusing specifically on the Ontario child welfare system, this case study examines how manufactured …
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Drug addiction and mothers: does parenting get better with treatment?
… skills and attitudes of substance abusing mothers in a comprehensive drug treatment facility in Camden, NJ. Methods: Giving three self-report measures and urine analysis to 14 mothers at intake, 2-months, and 6-months. Participants were reimbursed for their time and travel. Results: Mothers …
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Experiences of parenting in mothers who have a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder: an exploratory study
… that were common for most participants: being a bad mother, needing to be understood and accepted by children, and lack of support. 7 subordinate themes are also outlined and discussed. There were a number of similarities and differences within participants’ experiences. Conclusions Further …
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The 'good mother syndrome' and playgroup: The lived experience of a group of mothers
… historical and cultural determination of how mothers are supposed to act. It defines what a good mother is supposed to be, subject to political, cultural and economic influences. Further, the good mother syndrome is inextricably linked to challenges to identity, support in the mothering role, …
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Transforming Motherhood: Single Parents' Liberation In The 1970s
… Motherhood examines the experiences of single mothers from the early 1970s until the mid-1980s. Because most accounts of single motherhood in these decades focused on single motherhood as the cause of social problems, most of the discourse about single motherhood is framed on the premise that …
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"Motherhood brings Joy and Happiness", Discourses of the Ideal Mother in South Africa
… dominant discourses by examining the discourses mothers draw on when describing mothering. First-time mothers who attended perinatal care in public healthcare centres are often faced with interventions like the First 1000 Days of Life Campaign drawn from the Global North. Using Thematic Discourse …
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"Motherhood brings Joy and Happiness", Discourses of the Ideal Mother in South Africa
… dominant discourses by examining the discourses mothers draw on when describing mothering. First-time mothers who attended perinatal care in public healthcare centres are often faced with interventions like the First 1000 Days of Life Campaign drawn from the Global North. Using Thematic Discourse …
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"When you're not pregnant people don't give a flying toss about you": a multi-site exploration of moral exclusion and mothers in Ireland
… of women in Ireland, particularly two groups of mothers positioned as failing to live up to the socio-cultural and historical "ideal" of motherhood and are at risk of (or have been) separated from their child due to child protection or moral concerns. These two groups are: women contemporarily …
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The Emotional Experience of Parent-Adolescent Conflict When Discussing Digital Topics: An Exploratory Emergent Variable Analysis
… emotional experiences of adolescents and their mothers during conflict discussions about digital issues (e.g., screentime, social media, videogaming) relative to non-digital issues (e.g., fighting with siblings, bad attitude, schoolwork), as well as the potential moderating effect of attachment …
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An End in Herself: Non-Motherhood in Contemporary French Women's Writing
… of maternal refusal, when depicted, see non-mothers invariably figure both as a threat to the natural order (suggestive of the paradoxical symbolic power wielded by the childless cisgender woman in the collective imaginary) and bound by narratives which produce them as lacking, deviant or …
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Experiences of Parents Advocating for the “Complicated Child”: A Phenomenologically Oriented Descriptive Exploration
… main questions: 1) What are the experiences of mothers advocating for a child with multiple diagnoses within the special education structure? 2) What strategies have mothers developed during these advocacy experiences to successful and/or unsuccessful outcomes? The research examined six …
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The negotiation processes between remotely acculturating divorced coparents in relation to children's adjustment in urban Turkey: The moderating role of coparenting quality
… social withdrawal) as perceived by divorced mothers in urban Turkey. Altogether, 177 divorced mothers from three cities in urban Turkey reported their own and their ex-partners’ remote acculturation to U.S. and Turkish cultures using the Turkish Vancouver Index of Acculturation (for …
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An ethical assessment of the Zambian school re-entry policy with respect to teenage pregnancy: a case study of selected secondary schools in Lusaka
… 78 respondents. It was comprised of 22 teenage mothers, 30 other pupils, 12 teachers, 12 parents of teenage mothers, 1 representative from Lusaka DEBS and 1 representative from FAWEZA. The methods used to collect primary data were focus group discussions, observations, indepth interviews and …
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Mother what art thou? : a study of the depiction of mother figures in recent Australian and New Zealand fiction for teenagers
This thesis is a study of the representations of mothers and mother figures as found in five contemporary (published between 1984 and 1999) novels for teenagers. The focus is on western constructions of motherhood, as both normalising and universalising discourses. Utilising a variety of critical …
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The college student as mother : a phenomenological examination of community college student experiences
… used a purposive/ snowball sample of low-SES mothers who were making satisfactory progress toward a degree. Participants were screened using the following inclusion criteria: enrolled at least half-time, degree-seeking, minimum 2.5 G.P.A., Pell eligible and first-generation, had one or more …
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Stepmothering and Identity: A Synthetic Narrative-Discursive Analysis
… which considers the perspectives of stepmothers themselves. However, there have been research findings suggesting greater stress for stepmothers than stepfathers. In a neoliberal climate there are increasing demands on parents, including fathers who do not live with the biological mother …
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