Manufacturing 'Bad Mothers' : A Critical Perspective on Child Neglect /
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 has emerged, based on a view that the children of these mothers require legally sanctioned rescue by those better suited to care for them. Kar...
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Langue: | Inglés |
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Toronto [Ont.] :
University of Toronto Press,
1995.
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Table des matières:
- 1. Home Alone
- 2. A Critical Approach to Child Neglect
- 3. The Social Context of Neglect
- 4. Chronic Dirt and Disorder: Producing a Case of Child Neglect
- 5. Personality or Poverty?
- Contradictory Views of Neglect
- 6. Neglect as Failed Motherhood
- 7. The Colour of Neglect
- 8. 'Good Parents': The Current Approach to Neglect
- 9. Transformations.