From Runaway Wives to Regretting Motherhood: Understanding Mothers Who Choose to Live Apart From Their Children
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
ABSTRACT Despite growing scholarly interest in non‐residential motherhood, the emotional dimensions—namely maternal ambivalence and regret experienced by at least some non‐residential mothers—remain underexplored by scholars in this field. This paper argues that these emotions are critical to understanding non‐residential motherhood and challenging patriarchal ideals of motherhood. Specifically, as both “personal trouble” and “public issue,” non‐residential motherhood and maternal emotions are shaped by a patriarchal and ideological construction of femininity and ideal motherhood that constrains mothers and normatively delimits the kinds of feelings and mothering experiences “good” mothers are permitted to have. By reframing non‐residential motherhood within the context of these emotions, the essay posits that living apart from one’s children can be a legitimate and even empowering solution. The essay calls for further research on non‐residential mothers in the context of maternal ambivalence and regret, and a re‐evaluation of the narratives surrounding non‐residential motherhood.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
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 it