Women raise children within cultural ideologies that enforce gendered standards for caregiving. In market‐driven societies, working mothers face the ‘intensive mothering ideology’, which demands self‐sacrifice for children while promoting self‐interest at work. Fathers are primarily framed as breadwinners. We know little about how ethnically and racially diverse, low‐SES mothers construct ideas of good and bad parenting. In this study, we examined Dominican, African American and Mexican US‐based mothers' perspectives on ideal qualities of mothers and fathers (N = 193, daughters = 51.3%, MAge = 26.27). Using semantic and latent coding, we analysed the content and framing of mothers' responses, which fell into 28 themes, emphasising idealised parenting as providing basic needs, emotional support, education and embodying desired traits. Our latent analyses captured the frequencies of qualities mentioned by mothers, whether they centered children or parents, the presence or absence of qualities and performed actions or embodied characteristics. Our findings highlight the social constructions of mothering and fathering and offer a foundation for future mixed‐methods research.

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墨西哥、多米尼加和非裔美国美国母亲认为“好”和“坏”母亲和父亲的品质


女性在强制执行性别照顾标准的文化意识形态中抚养孩子。在市场驱动的社会中，职业母亲面临着“密集的母性意识形态”，它要求为孩子做出自我牺牲，同时在工作中促进自身利益。父亲主要被塑造成养家糊口的人。我们对民族和种族多样性、低社会经济地位的母亲如何构建好与坏的育儿观念知之甚少。在这项研究中，我们考察了多米尼加、非裔美国人和墨西哥裔美国母亲对母亲和父亲理想品质的看法 （N = 193，女儿 = 51.3%，MAge = 26.27）。使用语义和潜在编码，我们分析了母亲回答的内容和框架，这些回答分为 28 个主题，强调理想化的育儿方式为提供基本需求、情感支持、教育和体现期望的特征。我们的潜在分析捕捉了母亲提到的品质的频率，无论它们以孩子还是父母为中心，品质的存在与否以及所执行的行动或具体特征。我们的研究结果突出了母亲和父亲的社会结构，并为未来的混合方法研究提供了基础。