2 Quotes by Joan C. Williams

The ideal-worker standard and norm of work devotion push mothers to the margins of economic life. And a society that marginalizes its mothers impoverishes its children. That is why the paradigmatic poor family in the United States is a single mother and her child.

The ideology of natural growth prevalent among the poor and working class contrasts with the ” concerned cultivation” of the professional elite. The older children’s schedule set the pace of life for all family members.