Abstract
This article presents a discussion of the sociocultural implications of contemporary women's magazine stories and daily newspaper articles which deal with the subject of fostering within the USA. Contemporary media themes regarding foster mothers are historically contextualized within nineteenth-century economic shifts. These shifts contributed to sacralizing white, middle-class women and children and contributed to sentimentalizing their role in nuclear families. Consistent with a Victorian construction of women's and children's roles, duties, and personality characteristics, contemporary foster mothers and the children they care for are portrayed within the media as idealized cultural archetypes. The knowledge that is produced through the portrayal of foster mothers in the media represents a form of internal cultural colonialism that objectifies women and robs them of their humanity.
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