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Families Facing Untenable Choices

by Lisa Dodson and Wendy Luttrell | February 11, 2011 | Winter 2011

Inflexible employment undermines mothers’ ability to provide family care. Playing by the rules of middle class institutions poses particular challenges for low-income moms.

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Lisa Dodson is in the sociology department at Boston College. She is the author of The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy.

Wendy Luttrell is in the urban education and social psychology departments at the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). She is the author of Pregnant Bodies, Fertile Minds: Gender, Race, and the Schooling of Pregnant Teens.

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ghost

March 1, 2011

I clicked on the link to view the price of reading the article, but I received an error message "DOI not found".

It seems ironic that you have to *pay* to read an article about some of the challenges low-income families face.

Jon Smajda

March 5, 2011

We're working on the "DOI not found" errors. We switched publishers and it's caused some issues with these.

Speaking for myself at least, I wish we could make all our content available for free online. It's beyond our control unfortunately.

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