In this article, I qualitatively explore the emotion and identity work of parents living with addiction to drugs or alcohol and accessing social assistance, specifically Ontario Works, in Toronto, Canada. Through narrative and discourse analysis of in-depth interviews, I show how parents (re-) produce or (re-) negotiate their identities as mothers and fathers in relation to feeling rules constituted in three broader, cultural discourses about family relations, addiction, and poverty: welfare dependency; intensive mothering; and families as a safe haven. I argue that this emotion and identity work is necessitated by how these feeling rules collude or clash with parents master status of addict entrenched in their relationships with social assistance policy and caseworkers and perceived by others too. I conclude with a consideration of the social policy and justice implications of my findings, including the need to overturn the stigmatization of addiction and poverty.

在这篇文章中，我定性地探讨了在加拿大多伦多吸毒或酗酒并获得社会援助，特别是安大略工作的父母的情感和身份工作。通过对深度访谈的叙述和话语分析，我展示了父母如何（重新）生产或（重新）协商他们作为母亲和父亲的身份，与由关于家庭关系、成瘾、和贫困：福利依赖；密集的母爱；和家庭作为避风港。我认为，这种情感和身份工作是必要的，因为这些感觉规则如何与父母在与社会援助政策和个案工作者的关系中根深蒂固并被其他人感知的吸毒者的掌握状态串通或冲突。