Discuss the evidence that social policy constructs personal lives

“The most important force in the remaking of the world is a free motherhood.” This quote from Margaret Sanger highlights many first wave feminists views about the restrictions of motherhood, marriage, and household responsibilities. Many women saw being a mother as a chore or as something out of their control. Sanger fought these restrictions through bringing birth control to the general public who suffered from poverty due to large families. Others, like Charlotte Perkins Gilman, wrote social critiques in her texts “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Herland to bring attention to how society treats women and ideally how motherhood should be. Both of these women believed motherhood was a responsibility of women and they should take it more seriously to create better future generations. This goes beyond the suffrage and equality movement because it dictated that women’s sexual emancipation was equally important as women’s legal emancipation. Being a mother was considered a woman’s most crucial task at this time, therefore the power behind female sexual education and birth control challenged society to feminist.

Dawn Kingston (assistant professor of Faculty of Nursing) studied a s survey done by ‘6,400’ mothers and how their experiences before they got pregnant, during pregnancy, and after delivery. With her research she offered first time views

This essay will be critiquing the article ‘Fathers ' Involvement in Children 's Services: Exploring Local and National Issues in ‘Moorlandstown’ (Gillina et al, 2012). The article uses qualitative method to establish why fathers are less likely to access children services. It will be using the critical appraisal skills programme (CASP) framework to understand qualitative research to critique this research (CASP, 2013). This framework has been chosen to aid the critical thinking in a systematic manner. It will establish if the results of the article are valid, what the results are and if the results will help locally. This useful aid will enable the reviewer to make sound judgments of the research.

Social reproduction refers to the continuous intergenerational physically and emotionally exhausting household labour that is needed to maintain life (Trotz, lecture, Jan 13, 2016). This kind of labour though is considered to be a woman’s duty. Since an economic activity happens where there is a market, social reproduction is not considered as one as it doesn’t have a visible market. Even though, it doesn’t have market value, domestic work greatly contribute to the economy (Waring, 2013). Since this work is done in homes and by women who are usually marginalized, it remains invisible and thus not considered for pay. This kind of work depends on the traditional division of labour in which women are seen as housewives while men, breadwinners. Thus, the gendering of social reproduction is a result of “doing gender,” where women’s abilities to be mothers are naturalized (Coltrane, 1989); in other words, women are made to fit into the simplistic “domestic = family = heterosexual woman = care and love” equation (Manalansan & Martin, 2008, p.2), while any man who does the caring work in a family is feminized and considered a lesser man (Coltrane, 1989).Thus, a woman’s femininity depends on her motherhood while a man’s masculinity depends on “not doing mother’s work” (Coltrane, 1989, p.473).

 Based on an article written by the “Committee on Early Childhood, Adoption and Dependent” Care draws your attention to the fact that during the first

Women even before the formation of the welfare state were given only the role as family caretaker in order to allow for the man to work and create economic stability for the country. Even as the roles of women changed slightly into the industrial era, the ideologies of a women’s role continued to be as a family caretaker. It was only when the women had done a poor job of raising their family that poor laws were implemented in order to benefit the economy. While Mink and Solinger continue this point with an underlying theme of women’s roles within politics and their main duty as a good mother who will put working morals into her children. Forms of welfare have existed since the 1600’s but were then presented as a badge of failure to the mothers who could not longer support a

The essence of the relationship between a mother and child is a mutual ascendency in regards to identity. Children are subject to an instinctive longing for a mother. It is the mother’s influence that guides them in their process of discovering all the realities the world posses and in that processing discerning their identity. Conversely when a woman becomes a mother the presence of her child causes her to evaluate and develop her identity under the pretense of motherhood. Paula Nicolson touches on the value of both these scenarios in her article “Motherhood and Women’s Lives” where she expresses how the mother child relationship gives the pretense for both parties to find their authentic identities (Nicolson). Sue Monk Kidd evaluates the

In the main body of the text, the author makes clear that in recent years, there has been a lot of social stigma emerging around young, single mothers who are on benefits.

This assignment will answer two interrelated questions. The first part will look at transitions, for example, temporal transitions across time, such as, a child 's growth development or evolving capacities. Also, spatial transitions, between spaces such as moving between specific locations or services. It will look at how transitions can affect the child and how law and policy can try to slow down some transitions. How practitioners need to understand the concept of transitions and the perspective of all involved to see how it can be applied and developed in practice (The Open University, 2016a). The second part will focus on new care setting using case studies for evidence. There are different types of care, kinship care where family

Most women engage in maternal gatekeeping as a result or response to a failed romantic relationship, making it hard for the father to be a part of his child life. Gatekeeping is another way for some mothers to get revenge for the happy end they never got. Also, some mother undermines the father of their child to make it seem like they don’t want to be in their child life. Hip hop fatherhood narratives such as Joe Budden “Role Reversal” and Don Trip “Letter to my Son” reinforce gender stereotypes about co-parenting labeling the mother as an angry mama.

Care ethics incorporates Iris Marion Young’s idea of the social model for the commissioned parents to forge a relationship with the

According to Lucinda M. Finely, there are five assumptions on why women’s rightful place is the home namely the natural roles ideology which assumes that women’s biological destiny incapacitates them as workers in the public sphere since they are especially vulnerable, aesthetic and moral qualms which stem from society’s ambivalent attitude towards female sexuality wherein people are uncomfortable with the sight of a pregnant woman, pregnancy is a choice which frequently presumes that women are given benefits such as pregnancy leave in the workplace that is deemed unfair for men who are more devoted to work because they are not burdened by childbirth, pregnancy seen as not an issue of responsibility of both sexes, which assumes that it is

As a political science student, I see the effects of policies and bylaws on everyday life. The courses of action, set out by governments and corporations, have huge implications on the ways that people’s work, and function. Bylaws, which establish how a corporation will function, act as the rulebook to which anyone can go for answers, and ultimately are responsible for holding a corporation to its mandate.

Societal perceptions of motherhood in North America have changed drastically over the last century and continue to change. Due to prescribed traditional gender roles, the concept of motherhood has historically been latent in the concept womanhood, in that a woman’s ability to reproduce was seen to be an inherent part of her identity. Thus there existed societal pressures not only for women to become mothers, but to fit into the impossible standard of being the “perfect mother”. However, as the feminist movement gained more ground and women were increasingly incorporated into the workforce, these traditional views of gender roles and in turn motherhood were challenged. As the family dynamics that exist today are much more diverse, what

UK and analyse how the quality of life for the service users have improved over time.