- Final Abstract: In no more than 150 words, provide the abstract for your final project.
Due April 24
Judy:
This podcast will explore how Child Protective Services (CPS) pamphlets, observations of family visits with (CPS) caseworkers, and Pop Culture help capture the many different forms of positive and negative forms of parenting. I will be interjecting a few YouTube clips from the film Bad Moms (2016), which illustrates U.S. expectations of parenting placed on mothers to perform to be considered a “good” mom. As an intern at (CPS), I came across a few documents given to parents on how to parent their children, such as calendars given to parents with “helpful tips” about how children should spend their summer. These documents suggest that parents are expected to put their children in a learning environment, while on break from school, but also to be involved in their children’s lives. These examples will allow us to see a distinction between what is considered to be a “good vs. bad” parent and demonstrate how parents are expected to perform a particular parenting style. However, background literature suggests that working-class families of color struggle to perform those expected parenting styles due to socioeconomic status, culture, family structure and time, while wealthy-class families have access to resources, time, and flexibility to perform social norm parenting styles. Overall, when working-class families of color do not perform those expectation, they are deemed neglectful or abusive through the eyes of (CPS) caseworkers making them targets for children removals.