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The article discusses unpaid housework done by women with many children living in poverty, and the women’s attitudes towards employment. The empirical basis of the article is in-depth interviews conducted in 2013–2014 and in 2017. The interviewees were poorly educated mothers; they are usually absent from the labour market, take care of at least three children mostly by themselves (also in two-parent...
Bearing children is often viewed as negatively impacting the social mobility of low‐income single mothers. This analysis draws on 66 in‐depth interviews with low‐income, single‐mother participants in an antipoverty program in Boston. The author argues that the mother–child relationship is at the center of efforts by these single mothers to move out of poverty. Interviewees repeatedly expressed the...
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