Abstract
This exploratory investigation of mothers' decisions to voluntarily relinquish child custody indicates that (1) mothers tend to make these decisions alone, i.e., without consulting kin or friends, (2) it is mothers who decide against custody rather than fathers who decide for it, and (3) mothers attribute their decisions either to external factors which disrupted their ability to provide a “good” home, to idiosyncracies of their relationship to their child, or to stable aspects of their own personalities which rendered them generally incapable of “good” mothering.
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