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Work and Family Commitments of Low-Income and Impoverished Women explores a paradox in the contemporary work-life debate where dual-earner married mothers' decisions to limit or withdraw from the paid workforce to spend time with children yields understanding if not approval from the American public, while poor women who would otherwise limit paid work and rely on welfare are seen as shirking their responsibility to their children. This book explores the moral and ideological forces shaping poor mothers' response to this contradiction

AbstractConflict between the demands of paid work and motherhood has been studied primarily from the experience of middle‐class and professional mothers in dual‐earner families. Recently, with the reform of welfare, a number of studies have focused on the problems of poor mothers in meeting the demands of paid employment and caring for children. This article explores the moral discourse of judgments about paid work and motherhood and how this differs for low‐income and married middle‐class women. It reviews research that considers why poor single mothers are seen as irresponsible when they leave work due to family demands when professional and middle‐class married mothers are seen as acting selflessly. It examines how gendered schema differentially influences the work and family choices of married middle‐class and professional mothers compared to poor and low‐income mothers.

What are the (un)intended consequences of a citizens at conception policy? This article explores whether redefining a child does indeed spur a material expansion of benefits through the States Children's Insurance Program (SCHIP) or whether this action can be better understood as a struggle over symbolic boundaries of fetal personhood, social boundaries of citizenship, and the attendant challenges to women's reproductive rights.