SOC359H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Louis Althusser, Diederik Korteweg, Working Mother
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(cid:862) welfa(cid:396)e refo(cid:396)(cid:373) a(cid:374)d the u(cid:271)je(cid:272)t of the wo(cid:396)ki(cid:374)g mothe(cid:396): (cid:862)get a jo(cid:271), a (cid:271)ette(cid:396) jo(cid:271), the(cid:374) a (cid:272)a(cid:396)ee(cid:396)(cid:863) a(cid:374)(cid:374)a c. ko(cid:396)te(cid:449)eg (cid:863) Until 1996, poor single mothers in the us could claim welfare benefits for themselves and their children under the aid to families with dependent children (afdc) program if they had no other source of income. With the 1996 passage of the personal responsibility work opportunity. Reconciliation act (prwora), the us abandoned its already eroded commitment to supporting stay-at-home mothering by making work and work-related activities a mandatory condition for receiving aid. Reflecting the rise of the ideology of the masculine worker-citizen, this legislation forces poor, single mothers to adopt paid work practices traditionally associated with me(cid:374)"s pa(cid:396)e(cid:374)ti(cid:374)g. At the same time, prwora promotes marriage as the route out of poverty in a seeming attempt to reinstate a male breadwinner/female homemaker family.
