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 Women, Health, and Nation Canada and the United States since 1945 by (author) Georgina Feldberg, Molly Ladd-Taylor & Alison Li