About Molly Ladd-Taylor Molly Ladd-Taylor is a professor of history at York University. She is the author of Mother-Work: Women, Child Welfare, and the State, 1890–1930 and the coeditor of "Bad" Mothers: The Politics of Blame in Twentieth-Century America. Books by Molly Ladd-Taylor Fixing the Poor Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century by (author) Molly Ladd-Taylor A Century of Eugenics in America From the Indiana Experiment to the Human Genome Era edited by Paul A. Lombardo contributions by Maxwell J. Mehlman, Angela Logan, Jason Lantzer, Alexandra M. Stern, Gregory Dorr, Edward McCabe, Linda McCabe, Johanna Schoen, Elof Axel Carlson & Molly Ladd-Taylor Women, Health, and Nation Canada and the United States since 1945 by (author) Georgina Feldberg, Molly Ladd-Taylor & Alison Li