Essentials of Nursing Law and Ethics

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how a step mother and legal mother who live together negotiate and organize parenting and homemaking tasks
how members of lesbian step families define and create the step mother role
strategies family members use to define and cope with oppression
how sexism is transmitted within the family and how mothering may limit and/or contribute to female liberation
the opinions and viewpoints of the children of these families The findings in Lesbian Step Families: An Ethnography of Love challenge traditional views of mothering and fathering as gender and biologically based activities; they indicate that lesbian step families model gender flexibility and that the mothers and step mothers share parenting–both traditional mothering and fathering–tasks. This allows the biological mother some freedom from motherhood as well as support in it. With insight such as this, you will be prepared to help a client, a loved one, or yourself develop and maintain healthy family relationships.