“The ideal-worker standard and norm of work devotion push mothers to the margins of economic life. And a society that marginalizes its mothers impoverishes its children. That is why the paradigmatic poor family in the United States is a single mother and her child.” ChildrenWorkPovertyEconomicsMothers Book:Reshaping the Work-Family Debate: Why Men and Class Matter Source: Reshaping the Work-Family Debate: Why Men and Class Matter