Mothers

A mother is the female parent of a child. Mothers are women who inhabit or perform the role of bearing some relation to their children, who may or may not be their biological offspring. Thus, dependent on the context, women can be considered mothers by virtue of having given birth, by raising their child(ren), supplying their ovum for fertilisation, or some combination thereof. Such conditions provide a way of delineating the concept of motherhood, or the state of being a mother. Women who meet the third and first categories usually fall under the terms 'birth mother' or 'biological mother', regardless …

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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 November 2024 English

The Western welfare state model is beset with structural, financial, and moral crises. So-called scroungers, cheats, and disability fakers persistently occupy the centre of public policy discussions, even as official …

on the workshy, “inadequate” parents, single mothers, fractured families, the non-working “disabled linguistic and actual presence. Some – single mothers, for instance – have a consistent place in narratives and the underclass in our first chapter, single mothers are a prominent sub-category of this group, as other” such as immigrants, migrants, and sin- gle mothers.28 To some extent such registers are inter-correlated


DDN: Dundurn Press · 12 November 2024 English

The political life of Dene leader Georges Erasmus — a radical Native rights crusader widely regarded as one of the most important Indigenous leaders of the past fifty years. For …

taking up the struggle of your forefathers and mothers, don’t despair. It will take time to get what


UOP: University of Ottawa Press · 12 November 2024 English

Dangling in the Glimmer of Hope met en lumière les actions entreprises par des universitaires en réponse à certains des appels à l’action de la Commission de vérité et réconciliation. …

centre, then the children, then the females and the mothers, then the Elders, then the protectors of the circle


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English

The poetic memorialization of the Maghribī city illuminates the ways in which exilic Maghribī poets constructed idealized images of their native cities from the ninth to nineteenth centuries CE. The …

Overwhelmed by grief, remorse, and bereavement. 11 Mothers bereft and pregnant widows, a little girl holding


DDN: Dundurn Press · 5 November 2024 English

“A tender, beautifully written essay collection that is about so much more than parenting a child with a disability.” — Erin Pepler, author of Send Me Into The Woods AloneA …

(EPUB) Subjects: LCSH: Purdham, Adelle. | LCSH: Mothers of children with Down syndrome—Canada— Biography wonder. Aren’t all newborns dependent on their mothers? Shouldn’t all newborns be considered disabled sacrificed her life for her son; that we, as mothers, sacrifice our own lives for our children? In many responsibility to look after the children? Why are mothers the only ones judged for their parenting? Judgment


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 20 October 2024 English

Essential for understanding and mobilizing public health efforts.

25. The expenditure for the Child Welfare and Mothers’ Allowance Branch amounted to $710,811.63. . excluding the amounts expended for Child Welfare and Mothers’ Allowances, was expended for all other activities


CIHI: Canadian Institute for Health Information · 17 October 2024 English

This report introduces the work undertaken to develop a new measure of hospital harm that is linked to evidence-informed practices.

instruments or method of delivery. ‡ Newborns whose mothers are discharged from acute care facilities in a different fiscal year cannot be linked to their mothers’ records; therefore, as the linkage is done within instruments or method of delivery. ‡ Newborns whose mothers are discharged from acute care facilities in a different fiscal year cannot be linked to their mothers’ records; therefore, as the linkage is done within


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

Critic, translator, essayist, and gay man, Édouard Roditi (1910–1992) was a singular witness to the twentieth century. His writings over six decades are a unique account of a life lived …

In another room, the Baronne entertained our mothers, together with a few fathers who were not attending


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 October 2024 English

Oil workers are often typecast as rough: embodying the toxic masculinity, racism, consumerist excess, and wilful ignorance of the extractive industries and petrostates they work for. But their poetry troubles …

the Decolonial Cities Collective, the artist-mothers’ group at Men- toring Artists for Women’s Art,


Human Early Learning Partnership, University of British Columbia · 23 September 2024 English

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al. Multiple risks for children of incarcerated mothers: A descriptive study. Int J Pop Data Sci. 2024;9(5)


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