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The COVID-19 pandemic brought havoc to everyone but much more to child-rearing mothers. This qualitative study explored the new roles of mothers in the new normal specifically as being teachers to their children. Six mothers, who had public and private elementary grade children were purposely chosen. Information was gathered through a researcher-made validated interview questionnaire. Collection of information was done online through Facebook messenger and emails. Data analysis produced six themes, namely, complication in becoming mother-teachers, benefits in teaching one's own children, supervision of children's studies, impression of children of the modular schooling, considerations on children's learning and reflection on mothers' learning. Each theme was discussed thoroughly. To address the situation of these mothers, the Department of Education might consider giving support through home-visit tutorials. Teachers could introduce strategies to mothers on how to manage the studies with their children. Moreover, the Local Government Unit (LGU) may initiate alternative solutions led by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to unburden the mothers of their situations.

Despite Iran's geopolitical importance and mounting global concerns over its domestic and international practices, the state and its diverse mechanisms of rule have been largely neglected in mainstream sociology. To understand the state's shifting modality of power between its 1979 establishment and 2009, this paper analyzes the development of women-only parks as a major site of gender segregation. Offering a thorough account of the formation of the first women-only park in Tehran—the Mothers' Paradise—I contend that conceiving of gender segregation as a state project of Islamic dimensions overlooks significant shifts in state power from prohibition to production. I explore how the Islamic Republic of Iran, which thirty years ago considered women's outdoor exercise a problem, or even un-Islamic, now promotes it as a solution to women's health problems.

""Motherhood"" and ""military"" are often viewed as dichotomous concepts, with the former symbolizing feminine ideals and expectations, and the latter suggesting masculine ideals and norms. Mothers, Military, and Society contributes to a growing body of research that disrupts this false dichotomy. This interdisciplinary and international volume explores the many ways in which mothers and the military converse, align, contest, and intersect in society. Through various chapters that include in-depth case studies, theoretical perspectives and personal narratives, this book offers insights into th

Intro -- MOTHERSUNDER FIRE - Mothering In Conflict Areas -- Title Page -- Copyright Notice -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- WORKS CITED -- PART I:VIOLENCE, CONFLICT, AND MOTHERINGRE-CONSTRUCTED -- 1.Negotiating Risk -- BATTICALOA AND EVERYDAY VIOLENCE -- WOMEN AND VIOLENCE:TRADITIONAL VS. "EMPOWERED" TAMIL WOMEN -- FEMINIST RESISTANCE TO WAR -- THE VALKAI GROUP AND THE AMNAS -- CONCLUSION -- WORKS CITED -- 2.Holding Everything Together -- PALESTINIAN MOTHERING IN CONTEXT -- THEORIZING MOTHERING: THREE FUNCTIONS OF MOTHERING IN THE CONTEXT OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE -- METHOD -- Figure 1: Family demographics (age and gender) -- FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION -- Everyday Mothering in the Face of Uncertainty -- The Challenge of Lone Mothering -- Communal Support for Mothering -- CONCLUSIONS -- WORKS CITED -- 3.Giving Birth in War-Torn Afghanistan -- REVIEW OF LITERATURE -- THE AFGHAN REFUGEE EXPERIENCE (1979-2005) -- THE INFLUENCE OF THE TALIBANON INFANT AND MATERNAL HEALTH -- TRADITIONAL CULTURE AND RESISTANCE TO CHANGE -- THE PRICE OF PEACE -- CONCLUSION -- WORKS CITED -- 4.Mothering in the Context ofIsolation and Insecurity -- HISTORY AND CONTEXT:CHILDREN'S INVOLVEMENT IN ARMED GROUPS IN COLOMBIA -- Girls in Armed Groups -- DISARMAMENT, DEMOBILIZATION AND REINTEGRATION: GENDERED REALITIES -- Girls and Demobilization -- METHODOLOGY -- MOTHERING POST-DEMOBILIZATION:REALITIES AND CHALLENGES -- Becoming a Mother -- Family Separation -- The Stain of War: Stigma and Marginalization -- The Emotional Toll: Psychological Challenges -- Economic Vulnerability -- MOTHERING IN THE CONTEXT OF ISOLATION AND INSECURITY: IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY AND PRACTICE -- WORKS CITED -- 5.Maternal Pedagogies inSwat Valley, Pakistan -- HISTORICAL SNAPSHOT -- METHOD -- MATERNAL PEDAGOGIES/MOTHERS' PERSPECTIVES -- On Faith -- On Jihad -- On Peace.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Notice -- Table of Contents -- Dedications -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Section I: The Mommy Wars: Communiques Across the Barricades -- 1. So, What Do You Do? -- 2. Maternal Ambivalence -- 3. Navigating the Narrow Pass of Motherhood -- 4. Are "Mommy Wars" Real? -- Section II: On the Home Front: National Perspectives -- 5. Staying At Home -- 6. Stay at Home Jewish Mothers -- 7. Young Mothers in the UK -- 8. Mothering from a Caribbean Perspective -- 9. Mediating the Mommy Wars in Contemporary Germany -- 10. Integrating Choices -- 11. The Mommy Curve -- Section III: New Angels and Old Demons: Manifestations of Mothers at Home -- 12. Cyber-Mothers -- 13. Are Stay-at-Home Mothers Really at Home? -- 14. Eco-Momma -- 15. Smart Women, Different Choices -- 16. "But She Has A Nanny"...With Accompanying Eye Roll -- 17. 'Quiet Desperation' -- 18. Making it Work -- 19. The Day After, and the Day After That -- Section IV: When the War is Over: Re-imagining Stay-at-Home Mothering -- 20. How Alternative Mothering is Transforming American Stay-at-Home Motherhood -- 21. It's Time to Move Beyond the "Mommy Wars" -- 22. Seeing Themselves -- 23. Motherhood as an Act of Personal and Social Co-creation -- 24. The Free Gift -- 25. Conclusion -- 26. Contributors' Biographies.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Notice -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- From Criminalizing Mothering to Criminalized Mothers -- Part I: Discourses and Practices of Maternal Criminalization -- 1. For My Kids -- 2. Treasures -- 3. Settler Colonialism and Carceral Control of Indigenous Mothers and their Children -- 4. "Sadly ... it appears the mother ... saw more of the police ... than [she] did [her] children"1 -- 5. Mothering Outside-In -- 6. International Law Criminalizing Motherhood -- 7. Race, Nation and Citizenship in "Mothers Who Kill Their Children" -- 8. Legal and Medical Maneuvers -- 9. Pregnant, Incarcerated and Overlooked -- Part II: Maternal Narratives/ Beyond Criminalization -- 10. (M)othering with HIV -- 11. "Do You Have My Son?" -- 12. Mothering at the Margins -- 13. Mothering in the Context of Domestic Abuse and Encounters with Child Protection Services -- 14. Marginalization and Hope -- 15. "Something Worth Living For" -- 16. My Mothering Story -- Contributor Notes.

This article describes a management-planning procedure, based on a feminist perspective, for highlighting the short- and long-term consequences of parenthood for teenage mothers. It presents examples of how educational and employment programs have used this procedure to become more client centered and to identify ways to empower their clients.

"Conceiving of and representing mothers without their children seems so paradoxical as to be almost impossible. How can we define a mother in the absence of her child? This compelling volume explores these and other questions from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives, examining experiences, representations, creative manifestations, and embodiments of mothers without their children. In her 1997 book, entitled Mother Without Child: Contemporary Fiction and the Crisis of Motherhood, the critic Elaine Tuttle Hansen urged for critical and feminist engagement with what she described as 'the borders of motherhood and the women who really live there, neither fully inside nor fully outside some recognizable "family unit", and often exiles from their children'. This book extends and expands this important enquiry, looking at maternal experience and mothering on the borders of motherhood in different historical and cultural contexts, thereby opening up the way in which we imagine and represent mothers without their children to reassessment and revision, and encouraging further dialogue about what it might mean to mother on the borders of motherhood."--

Western countries differ greatly in the extent to which single mothers participate in the labor market. Using LIS data for 15 countries, I propose & estimate a simple structural model of labor supply that incorporates the main variables that influence the work decision for single mothers. The results suggest that a large part of the cross-country variation in the employment rates of single mothers can be explained by their different demographic characteristics & by the variation in expected income in the in-work vs out-of-work states. Women with higher expected earnings are more likely to work. Higher in-work benefits encourage employment. Single mothers with higher income from other sources, including child support, are less likely to work. Even after demographic & income variables are controlled for, the country dummies remain significant. This indicates that other variables not explicitly incorporated in the model, such as child care arrangements or social & cultural backgrounds, may also play a relevant role. 10 Tables, 1 Appendix, 24 References. Adapted from the source document.

ABSTRACTAlthough teen pregnancy is on the rise in Canada, and while adolescent mothering in general has received considerable recent attention from researchers, there is a paucity of information about the particular experiences of young women who become mothers while in government care. Emerging out of a study guided by a grounded theory methodology to address this knowledge gap, this paper examines the experiences and perspectives of government‐based social workers who work with young mothers in/from care. Our findings indicated that social workers reflect prevailing middle class values, including norms about 'good' and 'bad' parenting, and centred around the belief that adolescent pregnancy is, in and of itself, bad. One of the most significant ramifications of workers' values was their belief about the inevitability of 'the cycle': of children in care begetting children who ultimately came into care. Ironically, though workers and young mothers were both preoccupied by the concept of 'the cycle', and each were determined to break it, the two groups had very different ideas about what the cycle was all about and what perpetuated it. Unfortunately, this disjunction in perspectives, along with major recent shifts in the direction of child welfare policy and practice and related constraints in the resources at workers' disposal, conjoined to create significant barriers to what workers and young women both recognized as supportive practice with youth in care.

Mothers, Sex, and Sexuality talks about things not normally dared spoken out loud—the interconnectedness and conflict between our parental and sexual selves, the taboo of the sexual mother, and why it matters so much to shatter it. What is it about the sexual mother that is incompatible, and at times even disturbing? Why are we threatened by maternal sexuality? And what does this tell us about the structures of gender and power that govern our bodies? Mothers, Sex, and Sexuality presents a rigorous academic analysis of the myriad ways in which the sexual/maternal divide affects women, birthing people, and those of us who assume or are ascribed the title "mother". We examine the way we as mothers talk to our daughters about sex, the way we talk about sex in a cultural context, and the deafening silence around sex in a medical system that overlooks maternal sexuality. We return repeatedly to the impact of both Christianity and Hinduism on the mother as someone to be revered but tightly controlled. We embrace the lost eroticism of mothering and hail breastfeeding as a sexual maternal practice, arguing for a new, broader, feminist understanding of sexuality. We discuss the way fat mothers destabalise the heteronormative maternal model, the way kinky queers are reconfiguring the sexual/maternal divide through erotic role-play, and we explore the strange, intense, and romantic domestic relationship that springs up between mothers and nannies—two heterosexual women trapped together in a homoerotic triangulation of need and desire. In a titillating climax we revel in the sexual maternal as embodied through performance art, poetry, installations, and comedy, disrupting queer readings of bodies as we are invited to both fuck, and fuck with, the maternal. This book boldly provides both a challenge to the patriarchal constraints of motherhood and a racy road-map escape route out of the sexual-maternal dichotomy.