In Defense of Single-Parent Families Laura Gail Lunsford Smith made a self-conscious decision

Smith made a self-conscious decision to keep her many talents hidden from disapproving critics

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resistance and the structures of oppression are seen inexorably in operation

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contract-based factory farming system—and its negative consequences for workers

In Defense of Single-Parent Families Laura Gail Lunsford Smith made a self-conscious decisionSingle parent families succeed. Within these families children thrive, develop, and grow, just as they do in a variety of family structures. Tragically, they must do so in the face of powerful legal and social stigma that works to undermine them. As Nancy E. Dowd argues in this bold and original book, the justifications for stigmatizing single parent families are founded largely on myths, myths used to rationalize harshly punitive social policies.