Pien Bos

Mothers and Moral Injury

Pien Bos, Will van Sebille

Mothers are blamed for ascribed deviant sexual behaviors and fail to live up to standards of good motherhood. Mothers internalize such ambiguous and contradictory dominant values and norms. Subsequently they suffer from negative thoughts and feelings about their status. We present an analysis of consequences of the mothers’ supposed failure by unravelling their circumstances through the theoretical lens of ‘Moral Injury’.