Abstract
The United States Supreme Court's views about motherhood must be teased out from holdings it fails to connect into a coherent whole. The Justices have considered issues relating to women's physical and social reproductive roles in four major areas: comparative family relationships (unwed mothers versus unwed fathers), dependent mothers, mothers in the workplace, and the right to choose or refuse to become a mother. Despite some positive developments and much lip service, the Court's jurisprudence of motherhood fails to follow one of the fundamental precepts of our culture - "Honor Thy Mother."
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Laura Oren,
Honor Thy Mother: The Supreme Court's Jurisprudence of Motherhood,
17 Hastings Women's L.J. 187
(2006).
Available at: https://repository.uclawsf.edu/hwlj/vol17/iss2/2