Defending Motherhood: Morality, Responsibility, and Double Binds in Feeding Children

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Getting Eyes in the Home: Child Protective Services Investigations and State Surveillance of Family Life (2020, background): “…CPS, are scrutinizing their parenting, evaluating their motherhood against an ideal that fails to account for the systemic challenges they face (Elliott and Bowen 2018; Elliott and Reid 2019; Fong 2019a; Gurusami 3 These figures are underestimates, as some states do not submit data on…”
Parenthood and Well-Being: A Decade in Review. (2020, background): “…especially mothers who are on public assistance or formerly incarcerated, feel the need to guard themselves from the risk of being judged as neglectful parents, wherein they could receive a dire sanction of losing custody of the child (Desmond, 2016; Elliott & Bowen, 2018; Gurusami, 2018).”