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1. Marginalised Mothers

   Exploring Working Class Experiences of Parenting

   By Val Gillies

   Series: Relationships and Resources

   Successive moral panics have cast poor or socially excluded mothers - associated with social problems as diverse as crime, underachievement, unemployment and mental illness - as bad mothers. Their mothering practices are held up as the antithesis of good parenting and are associated with poor...

   Published November 29th 2006 by Routledge
2. Making Families

   Moral Tales of Parenting and Step-Parenting

   By Jane Ribbens McCarthy, Rosalind Edwards, Val Gillies

   This book goes to the heart of academic, political and popular debates, as well as professional concerns, about the nature of contemporary family life and parenting. Families are widely discussed in western societies as breaking down or as radically changing, with step-families in particular seen...

   Published March 31st 2003 by Routledge-Cavendish