Book of Donmon Teith

A complex and punitive child welfare system has emerged, based on a view that the children of mothers providing deficient childcare require legally sanctioned r

Child neglect has been characterized over the past century as a problem of deficient care of children by mothers. A complex and punitive child welfare system ha

While the image or construct of the “good mother” has been the focus of many research projects, the “bad mother,” as a discursive construct, and also mo

Jackie Krasas traces the trajectories of mothers who have lost or ceded custody to an ex-partner. She argues that these noncustodial mothers' experiences should