Mother blame

Please listen to the following podcast and read the two articles here and discuss how they relate to Jacqueline Rose’ claim I sent in my previous document: A simple argument guides this book: that motherhood is, in Western discourse, the place in our culture where we lodge, or rather bury, the reality of our own conflicts, of what it means to be fully human. It is the ultimate scapegoat for our personal and political failings, for everything that is wrong with the world, which it becomes the task–unrealisable of course,– of mothers to repair. I am not looking for summaries but rather what content, details, claims, assumptions in all three of these things are related and how are you interacting with them–questioning, surprised, shocked, etc. And may those initial impressions and confusions you feel lead you to research. For example, I feel the piece on the children in the detainment facility is important. It lets us know of injustice and the writer clearly wants change and to help them. Yet, there are details of care and mothering, and “Teen mothers” that perhaps suggest some blame on mothers. How have they been abandoned? Is there implicit shaming on these struggling women for having children? If this were your paper–One could potentially see this is a social problem and research around the border crisis and this facility in particular to learn more of the conditions, policing, raids on families, struggles and separations of families. One could look into sociologists and thinkers discussing the way race and motherhood is related. There are assumptions that the poor have too many children