Why the focus on mothers and daughters?
We appreciate the tremendous support mothers and children get from committed fathers, but women who are parents are subject to powerful messages and constraints that men who are parents are not. What it means to be a good mother is entirely different than what it means to be a good father. While the work of parenting by men and by women is interconnected and issues related to fathering are important and compelling, our focus in the project is on women who parent-that is, mothers. Likewise, daughters are subject to ideas and situations that sons are not. We intend our research and findings to stand alongside and support other projects on mothers and sons, and on fathers and sons or daughters, but here we shine the spotlight on mothers and daughters.
