Is Maternal Guilt a Cross-National Experience?

Many working mothers in the US say that they feel guilty about their inability to live up to cultural ideals of the “good mother” embedded in intensive mothering discourse. Intensive mothering is reflected in and exacerbated by the country’s work-family policies. The United States is an outlier amon...

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Published in:	Qualitative sociology Vol. 44; no. 1; pp. 1 - 29
Main Author:	Collins, Caitlyn
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York Springer US 01.03.2021 Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:	Childrearing practices Cross Cultural Psychology Families & family life Family policy Fathers Guilt Mothers Personality and Social Psychology Public policy Social Sciences Sociology Unpaid Welfare Women Working mothers United States > US Gender Motherhood Guilt Work-family policy Cross-national
ISSN:	0162-0436, 1573-7837
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