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22 Research cited in Coontz, “American Family.”
23 Unsigned editorial, “Denying Honor-Society Status to Teen Moms Discriminatory,” Ft. Lauderdale Sun—Sentinel, 9 August 1998, p. G4; Haya El Nasser, “Unmarried Dads a Surging Social Phenomenon,” USA Today, 12 June 1997, p. A7.
24 Clinton’s speech was delivered 15 November 1995. CBS “Evening News” broadcast was 9 March 1995. See David Blankenhorn, Fatherless America (New York: Basic Books, 1995); and for another example of the genre, David Popenoe, Life Without Father (New York: Free Press, 1996).
25 Tamar Lewin, “Creating Fathers out of Men with Children,” New York Times, 18 June 1995, p. 1.
26 Laura Flanders, “Life Without Father,” Extra, September 1997, pp. 6-8 (contains Horn quote); CBS “Evening News,” 9 March 1995. See also Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur, Growing Upwith a Single Parent (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994).
27 Lesbian parents: Charlotte Patterson, “Children of Lesbian and Gay Parents,” Child Development 63 (1992): 1025-42, and “Lesbian and Gay Families,” Current Directions in Psychological Studies 3 (1994): 62-64; Judith Stacey, In the Name of the Family (Boston: Beacon Press, 1996), ch. 5 (contains Blankenhorn quote); Deb Price, “Three New Studies Confirm Lesbian Parents Are Fit for the Job and Raise Well-Adjusted Kids,” Detroit News, 25 April 1997 (online edition); Golombok et al., “Children Raised in Fatherless Families”; Nanette Gartrell et al., “The National Lesbian Family Study,” American Journal of Orthopsychiatry66 (1996): 272-81.
28 Eyer, Motherguilt, pp. 132, 152. See also Judith Stacey, “Virtual Truth with a Vengeance,” Contemporary Sociology(in press); Ahrons, Good Divorce; Biblarz and Raflery, “Family Structure and Social Mobility”; Marsha Kline et al., “The Long Shadow of Marital Conflict,” Journal of Marriage and the Family 53 (1991): 297-310; Cynthia Harper and Sara McLanahan, “Father Absence and Youth Incarceration,” paper presented at meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 1998.
29 Stacey, Name of the Family, pp. 139-40. See also Lillian Rubin, The Transcendent Child (New York:, Basic Books, 1996).
30 Vicky Phares, “Where’s Poppa?” American Psychologist 47 (1992): 656-64; Demie Kurz, For Richer, for Poorer: Mothers Confront Divorce (New York: Routledge, 1995); Males, Scapegoat Generation; Arlie Hochschild, The Second Shift (New York: Viking Penguin, 1989); Deborah Rhode, “To Fault or Not To Fault,” National Law Journal(13 May 1996): A19.
31 Margaret L. Usdansky, “Single Motherhood: Stereotypes vs. Statistics,” New York Times, 11 February 1996, p. D4.
32 Except as otherwise cited, media portrayals of Lopez are from Richard Goldstein, “Monster Mom,” Village Voice, 19 December 1995, p. 21.
33 David Van Biema, “Abandoned to Her Fate,” Time, 11 December 1995, pp. 32-36.
34 Ibid.
35 Katha Pollitt, “The Violence of Ordinary Life,” Nation, 1 January 1996, p. 9; Bruno Bettelheim, TheUses ofEnchantment(New York: Knopf, 1976), p. 69.
36 Quotes from, respectively, Biema, “Abandoned to Her Fate”; Goldstein, “Monster Mom”; Michael deCourcy Hinds, “The Instincts of Parenthood Become Part of Crack’s Toll,” New York Times, 17 March 1990, p. A8. For examples of media depictions of crack moms see also Douglas Besharov, “Crack Babies: The Worst Threat Is Mom Herself,” Washington Post, 6 August 1989, p. B1; “Crack Comes to the Nursery,” Time, 19 September 1988, p. 85; “Call to Remove Addicts’ Children,” New York Times, 28 April 1990, p. A8; Jan Hoffman, “Pregnant, Addicted-and Guilty?” New York Times Magazine, 19 August 1990, pp. 34—57. On the maltreatment of these women see Lisa Maher, “Punishment and Welfare: Crack Cocaine and the Regulation of Mothering,” in C. Feinman, ed.,