Welfare Mother Intersectionality

Intersectionality is the multiple factors, which complement and compound each other to successfully suppress. Karen McCormack examines the intersectionality embedded within the term “welfare mother” in Stratified Reproduction and Poor Women’s Resistance. This simple two word term, is full of preconceived notions and intersectionality. Welfare mother and terms like it, reflect ideas found widely across society and society’s norms, these ideas interlock with each other to distribute power unevenly.
First and foremost, the term “welfare mother” is one that takes the positive condonation of the word “mother” commonly associated with neutering, helpfulness and other wonderful characteristics, and proceeds to completely destroy these ideas for whom the term is being used to describe. When the term “welfare mother” is used, people generally think of mothers whom are “irresponsible, sexually promiscuous, and immoral behavior of the poor” and overall a bad mother. Within the short description of the term welfare mother McCormack demonstrates intersectionality large role with in the term.
McCormack give five criterial for a good (welfare) mother, putting children first, spending time with children, providing for their children, keeping children out of trouble, and keeping children safe. …show more content…
So, does the intersectionality of being a good mother on welfare. Mothers on welfare can do some of the criteria but not all to become a good mother, it is just like only a few wires in a bird cage can’t trap a bird. All the wires must be there to trap a bird and a mother must meet all the requirements made by society to be a good mother. Intersectionality, is the combination of factors that compile on top of each other, that do not allow for someone to achieve all of the factors; which in turn suppresses them when all factors are