‘I know I'm a good mom’: Young, low-income mothers’ experiences with risk perception, intensive parenting ideology and parenting education programmes

Romagnoli, Amy; Wall, Glenda

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“…The imperative to mother intensively is said to cross class boundaries, but nonetheless has a regulatory effect on women's mothering practices (Lee et al, 2014). Romagnoli and Wall argue that for middle-class women intensive mothering defines good motherhood, whilst for the lowincome mothers in their sample, aligning with it enabled them to distance themselves from negative stereotypes associated with other low-income mothers (Romagnoli & Wall, 2012). As such, when it comes to meeting the requirements of intensive motherhood, the stakes are high.…”

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“For some people it isn’t a choice, it’s just how it happens”: Accounts of “delayed” motherhood among middle-class women in the UK

Budds

Locke

Burr

2016

Feminism & Psychology

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Citation: Budds K, Locke A and Burr V (2016) "For some people it isn't a choice, it's just how it happens": Accounts of 'delayed' motherhood among middle-class women in the UK. Feminism and Psychology. 26(2): 170-187. Copyright statement: © 2016The Authors. Full-text reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy.Article "For some people it isn't a choice, it's just how it happens": Accounts of 'delayed' motherhood among middle-class women in the UK. Kirsty BuddsSchool of Psychology, Keele University, UK Abigail LockeFaculty of Social Sciences, University of Bradford, UK Vivien Burr School of Human and Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield, UK AbstractOver the past few decades the number of women having their first babies over the age of 35 in the United Kingdom (UK) has increased. Women's timing of motherhood is invariably bound up with a discourse of 'choice' and in this paper we consider the role choice plays in the timing of motherhood among women who have been defined as 'older' mothers. This article is based on data from 11 semi-structured interviews that explored the transition to motherhood among 'older' middle-class mothers. The interviews were analysed using critical discursive psychology. The women drew upon two dominant repertoires when making sense of their timing of motherhood. Within the first repertoire, 'older motherhood as circumstance', older motherhood was presented as the outcome of life circumstances beyond their control, with a lack of the 'right' circumstances facilitating 'delayed' motherhood. Within the second repertoire, 'older motherhood as readiness', women constructed themselves as (now) prepared for motherhood. 'Readiness' was bound up with notions of self-fulfillment, yet also assessments of their ability to be 'good' mothers. We conclude that, far from a straightforward choice, the timing of motherhood is shaped by cultural definitions of the 'right' circumstances for parenthood, but also cultural definitions of 'good' motherhood, which may define when women are 'ready'.

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“For some people it isn’t a choice, it’s just how it happens”: Accounts of “delayed” motherhood among middle-class women in the UK

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Burr

2016

Feminism & Psychology

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“…Research shows that many mothers feel that they fall short of such ideals, with some even seeing the flaws inherent in these discourses. At the same time, many mothers still feel accountable to the normative demands of intensive motherhood, particularly as they relate to food provisioning (Romagnoli and Wall 2012).…”

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A Taste of Inequality: Food's Symbolic Value across the Socioeconomic Spectrum

Fielding‐Singh¹

2017

SocScience

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Scholars commonly account for dietary disparities across socioeconomic status (SES) using structural explanations that highlight differences in individuals' wealth, income, or location. These explanations emphasize food's material value. But food also carries symbolic value. This article shows how food's symbolic value helps drive dietary disparities. In-depth interviews with 160 parents and adolescents and 80 hours of observations with four families demonstrate how a family's socioeconomic position in part shapes the meanings that parents attach to food. These differing meanings contribute to distinct feeding strategies across the socioeconomic spectrum: whereas low-SES parents use food to buffer against deprivation, high-SES parents provision food to fulfill classed values around health and parenting. The findings suggest that an understanding of how families' material circumstances shape food's symbolic value is critical to fully account for dietary differences across SES.

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“…Historically this has been a highly raced and classed discourse, driven strongly by white, middle-class values, which has later been critiqued in analyses of mothering in young, low income communities (e.g. Romagnoli and Wall, 2012) and in black communities (Elliott et al, 2015;McCormack, 2005). As several scholars point out (Nadesan, 2002;Harris, 1998;Bruer, 1999) this discourse has been mobilized at various private and public institutional levels placing a strong imperative in the hands of parents, especially mothers to invest more than usual amounts of physical and emotional energy into specific activities and practices with children without which they might themselves be putting their children's interests last, or undertaking enormous risks.…”

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The mediation of childbirth: ‘Joyful’ birthing and strategies of silencing on a Facebook discussion group

Das

2017

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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Abstract:The mediation of parenting has recently occupied sociologists, media, communication and cultural studies scholars alike. This paper locates itself within this developing strand of research, as it explores discourses of intensive motherhood on a Facebook discussion group providing support and advice for a specific approach to and philosophy of childbirth. Presenting findings from an analysis of main posts and comments made on them, I tease out the brighter and darker sides of the performance of motherhood in anticipation of birth, on social media, reading these against discussions about the self-managing, intensive mother responsible for making the very best decisions for her child.

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‘I know I'm a good mom’: Young, low-income mothers’ experiences with risk perception, intensive parenting ideology and parenting education programmes

Cited by 116 publications

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“For some people it isn’t a choice, it’s just how it happens”: Accounts of “delayed” motherhood among middle-class women in the UK

“For some people it isn’t a choice, it’s just how it happens”: Accounts of “delayed” motherhood among middle-class women in the UK

A Taste of Inequality: Food's Symbolic Value across the Socioeconomic Spectrum

The mediation of childbirth: ‘Joyful’ birthing and strategies of silencing on a Facebook discussion group

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