ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on the mother-daughter relationships of women who have abused illegal drugs and received treatment and social welfare services and who are mothers themselves. It looks at the various categories of mother-daughter relationships given in their explanations of their own life as daughters and mothers. In the feminist qualitative research tradition, interviews of women have been understood as an opportunity to 'give voice' to women who have suffered from a lack of attention in male-defined social science. A research interview differs from therapy interviews in that former understood as a method of collecting information and later of fostering change in clients' lives. The interviewees mentioned problems in their mother-daughter relationships, both the present and the past. In most cases the mothers' activity was connected to the grandchildren. The concept of reproduction has been understood as being as societal and cultural as it is biological. As the intimacy of parenthood has been lost, means of justification have become essential.