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[3] How society holds women accountable for their maternal performances & children’s outcomes (e.g. Ladd-Taylor and Umansky 1998, Garey and Arendell 2001, Malacrida 2003, Singh 2004, Craig and Scambler 2006, Blum 2007, Hays 1996). Tied with idealised notions of middle-class, heterosexual, nuclear families, & discourses of maternal 'deviance' (Arendell 2000), targeting mothers who are single, poor, non-White, immigrant, homeless, lesbian, whose children are disabled, etc.
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