Evaluators considering the case study as a design for evaluation must first decide what type of evaluation question their specific question is and then examine the strengths and limitations of each type of case study for answering it.
Evaluators have to study the strength and weaknesses of case studies.
What's striking, as Sharon Hays recently pointed out in The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood (1996), is how tenaciously we cling to intensive motherhood, as she calls this ambitious mission, despite its increasing impracticality and despite how guilty it can make us feel.