In
Strong Stuff: Mothers' Stories eighty four American mothers tell their
stories, intimately, candidly, in their own words.
These
women form a cross section of the mothers in America today: rich and poor; black,
white, Hispanic, Native American and Asian American; Jewish, Catholic, protestant,
and Amish; maried and single; lesbian and straight; employed in a variety of occupations
and at-home-by-choice; mothers in prison; teenage mothers and mothers who are
great-grandmothers; Midwest farm mothers, mothers from New England, the South
and the West; homeless mothers; mothers of only children and mothers of many,
many children; adoptive and step-mothers.
