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‘I Also Have a Life Other Than Just Being a Mother’: Narratives of Employed Mothers

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East Asian Mothers in Britain

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In his discussion of policy response to teenage motherhood , Duncan (2007) argues that individual women make their decisions towards childcare and employment on the basis of different rationalities.

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    She opted not to provide her household income.

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    Ping also opted not to provide her household income.

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    The number of years interviewees had lived in Britain is an estimation measured at the time of the interviews.

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Lim, HJ. (2018). ‘I Also Have a Life Other Than Just Being a Mother’: Narratives of Employed Mothers. In: East Asian Mothers in Britain . Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75635-6_5

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