In the anthology Revolutionary Mothering, a group of mothers and academics posed the question: “How do we get from a conservative definition of mothering as a biological destiny to mothering as a liberating practice that can thwart runaway capitalism?”[8] In the United States, the Marshall Plan for Moms is a national movement to “center mothers in our economic recovery from the pandemic and value their labor” by calling for affordable childcare, paid family leave and equal pay.[9] Concurrently, the “reparenting” or “intergenerational trauma healing” movement is rising within different
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