“Canada's Most Notorious Bad Mother”: The Newspaper Coverage of the Jordan Heikamp Inquest*
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Abstract
Lcar;auteure de cet article se penche sur la couverture médiatique de l'enquête portant sur un enfant mort de faim dans une maison d'hébergement pour femmes sans-abri, en 1997 à Toronto. Elle étudie l'utilité d'utiliser le discours sur les mères conjuguéà celui sur l'individualisation de la responsabilité pour comprendre pourquoi une certaine interprétation de ce cas s'est emparée de l'imagination du public et a imprégné les comptes rendus des médias. Examiner comment l'image de la mère de cet enfant a été construite en celle de la « mauvaise » mère aide à comprendre comment les notions hégémoniques de la « bonne « mère sont renforcées et perpétuées. Cependant, l'invocation des idéaux de la maternité nous empêche de voir la réalité des expériences des autres concernant la maternité ainsi que le fait que, pour plusieurs, il existe des barrières et des restrictions à l'idéal des bons soins maternels. This article is an examination of the media coverage of the inquest into the 1997 starvation death of an infant in a homeless women's shelter in Toronto. It explores the usefulness of using the discourse of mothering, intersected with the individualization of responsibility, to understand why one interpretation of this case seized the imagination of the public and informed media accounts. Examining how the mother of this infant was constructed as a “bad” mother helps to understand how hegemonic notions of “good” mothering are reinforced and perpetuated. The invocation of the ideals of motherhood, however, prevents us from seeing the reality of others' experiences of motherhood and the fact that, for many, there are barriers and restrictions to the ideal of good mothering.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".