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My maternal journey, like others’, is complicated. I come from an immediate matrilineage that bears witness to disrupted maternities. Mothers leaving their children, children sent away in the wider context of poverty, loss, abuse and trauma. I was one of six children, the second child born to teenag...
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doaj-918d2babb5364d5ba69476d23aded1022021-08-18T09:51:30ZengOpen Library of HumanitiesStudies in the Maternal1759-04342013-01-015110.16995/sim.122Writer's statementRenaud Beeckmans0Unité de recherche en Neurosciences Cognitives, Université Libre de Bruxelles. 50, av. F.D. Roosevelt, 1050, Bruxelles, BelgiumMy maternal journey, like others’, is complicated. I come from an immediate matrilineage that bears witness to disrupted maternities. Mothers leaving their children, children sent away in the wider context of poverty, loss, abuse and trauma. I was one of six children, the second child born to teenage Irish parents – a Catholic father and Protestant mother in the mid-1970s. My maternal journey started with my own mother, a relationship that, although primary, has been at best consistently fraught, at worst destructive or nonexistent.https://www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/4169/ |
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My maternal journey, like others’, is complicated. I come from an immediate matrilineage that bears witness to disrupted maternities. Mothers leaving their children, children sent away in the wider context of poverty, loss, abuse and trauma. I was one of six children, the second child born to teenage Irish parents – a Catholic father and Protestant mother in the mid-1970s. My maternal journey started with my own mother, a relationship that, although primary, has been at best consistently fraught, at worst destructive or nonexistent. |
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