Pub Date : 2021-04-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501754296.003.0001
Jackie Krasas
This chapter analyzes the challenges of being a mother without primary custody of one's child and confirms whether there will be benefits to being a noncustodial mother. It explains what the growth of noncustodial motherhood generally signals about motherhood. It also reveals and gives voice to a highly stigmatized group of women who hold a seemingly contradictory identity in contemporary US culture. The chapter examines common trajectories leading to noncustodial status, the common experiences of noncustodial mothers, and concerns where lived experiences intersect with gendered social institutions. It explores the experiences of noncustodial mothers that provide a window into the complexities and contradictions of contemporary motherhood overall.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501754296.003.0003
Jackie Krasas
This chapter emphasizes that noncustodial mothers, whether voluntarily or not, often experience some form of stigma in relation to their status as mothers without primary custody of their children. It explains stigma as a robust subject of sociological and psychological inquiry, in which sociological literature is replete with studies of mental health, sexual orientation, and teenage pregnancy. It also cites Bernice Pescosolido and Jack Martin's extensive review of the theoretical developments and widening scope of the application of the concept of stigma, such as to singlehood, gambling, and stripping. The chapter describes noncustodial mothers that experience a spoiled identity, a “blemish of individual character.” It investigates how spoiled identities operate, which in turn confer a whole host of additional negative traits to the stigmatized person while searching for a reason to explain the blemish.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501754296.003.0005
Jackie Krasas
This chapter explores how gendered social institutions shape the custody process and experiences of noncustodial mothers. It elaborates that work and employment, psychotherapy, and the law are discursively gender-neutral social institutions that rest on and reproduce existing gender hierarchies that shape a noncustodial mothers' experiences. It also explains what gendered understandings and assumptions about work and employment or home inform mothers' understandings of child custody and custody-determination processes. The chapter describes the role that the therapeutic orientation of the custody process plays in making mothers lose custody. It demonstrates the manner in which gender matters in child custody as the concept of parenting is deeply gendered, regardless of the actual genders of parents.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501754296.003.0007
Jackie Krasas
This chapter looks at the annual conference called the Battered Mothers Custody Conference, which aims to inform, support, and advocate for survivors of domestic violence. It explains that the annual event, which started in 2006, allows survivors to network with each other and with the professionals and advocates who come to present at the conference. It also mentions the publication A Judge's Guide: Making Child-Centered Decisions in Custody Cases, which urges judges to count domestic violence as a serious factor in the determination of child custody, arguing that an abuser acts de facto against the best interests of the child by virtue of their abuse. The chapter mentions recommendations in the guide for training all parties engaged in custody disputes in a domestic violence context. It points out American states that have some consideration of domestic violence built into its state custody laws.
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This chapter delves into how mothers understand the larger terrain of gender at work in their custody experiences. It addresses what role gender plays in a mother's path to becoming a noncustodial mother and explains how gender shapes their experiences of noncustodial motherhood. It also builds on the analysis of the meanings of motherhood in the context of the social stigma attached to the noncustodial mother status by taking a broader and deeper look at the range of understandings of motherhood held by the noncustodial mothers who were interviewed or who participated in online support communities. The chapter highlights noncustodial mothers on the gendered nature of their experiences, reflecting on how gender should matter in determining child custody. It points out how noncustodial mothers as a group have varied and complex understanding of gender and motherhood.
{"title":"Still a Mother","authors":"Jackie Krasas","doi":"10.1515/9781501754319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501754319","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter delves into how mothers understand the larger terrain of gender at work in their custody experiences. It addresses what role gender plays in a mother's path to becoming a noncustodial mother and explains how gender shapes their experiences of noncustodial motherhood. It also builds on the analysis of the meanings of motherhood in the context of the social stigma attached to the noncustodial mother status by taking a broader and deeper look at the range of understandings of motherhood held by the noncustodial mothers who were interviewed or who participated in online support communities. The chapter highlights noncustodial mothers on the gendered nature of their experiences, reflecting on how gender should matter in determining child custody. It points out how noncustodial mothers as a group have varied and complex understanding of gender and motherhood.","PeriodicalId":338639,"journal":{"name":"Still a Mother","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127077540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-04-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501754296.003.0006
Jackie Krasas
This chapter examines the field of psychology that intersects with child-custody determination. It discusses the incorporation of psychological discourses in the standards applied to determine custody and the actual involvement of psychologists and therapists as mediators or as custody evaluators that render an expert opinion on a given case. It also highlights contemporary Western psychological frameworks that rest on and support neoliberal ideas about individualism, individual responsibility, and privatization. The chapter cites individual, psychological-based interventions in the form of psychotherapy that represent neoliberal answers to social problems. It emphasizes how therapeutic approaches are founded on promoting individual accommodation or adjustment to existing circumstances rather than challenging social structures that create traumatic or troubling social milieus.
{"title":"Manufacturing Bad Mothers","authors":"Jackie Krasas","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501754296.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501754296.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines the field of psychology that intersects with child-custody determination. It discusses the incorporation of psychological discourses in the standards applied to determine custody and the actual involvement of psychologists and therapists as mediators or as custody evaluators that render an expert opinion on a given case. It also highlights contemporary Western psychological frameworks that rest on and support neoliberal ideas about individualism, individual responsibility, and privatization. The chapter cites individual, psychological-based interventions in the form of psychotherapy that represent neoliberal answers to social problems. It emphasizes how therapeutic approaches are founded on promoting individual accommodation or adjustment to existing circumstances rather than challenging social structures that create traumatic or troubling social milieus.","PeriodicalId":338639,"journal":{"name":"Still a Mother","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115177656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1515/9781501754319-fm
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1515/9781501754319-006
{"title":"5. Father of the Year","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781501754319-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501754319-006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":338639,"journal":{"name":"Still a Mother","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129245713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1515/9781501754319-002
{"title":"1. A Contradiction in Terms","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781501754319-002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501754319-002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":338639,"journal":{"name":"Still a Mother","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116515349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1515/9781501754319-004
{"title":"3. She Must Have Done Something","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781501754319-004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501754319-004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":338639,"journal":{"name":"Still a Mother","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123342680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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