Rejecting the Selfless Mother
November 9th, 2023 | by Megan Evans
I was nine months clean and sober when I got pregnant. In the naivete of early sobriety, I thought I had life figured out and was ready to share this wisdom with a child.
Browsing the "Bad Moms" Category
A Portrait of the Mother as Love on Fire: Death, Forgiveness, and Abolition (part III)
September 28th, 2021 | by Karissa Welch T.
I don't want Victoria free in the world at this point, even though I don't believe she should rot in prison. I can't have a relationship with her, even though I have compassion
A Portrait of the Mother as Love on Fire: Death, Forgiveness, and Abolition (part II)
September 21st, 2021 | by Karissa Welch T.
I used to think that all mothers were as good as they were able to be, even if I didn't agree with some mothers. But there are bad mothers
A Portrait of the Mother as Love on Fire: Death, Forgiveness, and Abolition (part I)
September 14th, 2021 | by Karissa Welch T.
I called Child Protection Services and asked them to do a well-check on my sister-in-law and her family. The police reported that the hotel room was messy, but nothing was obviously amiss.
Thanks for Being Awesome: You, Me, and The Algorithm
January 26th, 2021 | by Cheryl Klein
I know there’s a simple solution to this quagmire, which is to turn off the TV (not so simple during month eleven of quarantine) or at least to disable YouTube
I Always Answer the Phone
January 14th, 2021 | by Lindsey Campbell
That day they were born, I never thought they’d grow up one day blessed with all the same illnesses and afflictions as me
Someone Else’s Kids
May 7th, 2020 | by Cheryl Klein
How was I supposed to treat them all fairly when their circumstances were so different
Listening for the Music
May 4th, 2020 | by Sarah Dalton
Darth Vader would never have this dilemma because Darth Vader always knows what to do
Things I Regret Saying: A Co-Parenting Comic
August 9th, 2018 | by Molly McIntyre
Becoming a mom plunged me into a new kind of adolescence, where everything I had learned about myself was suddenly
The Long Run: An Intergenerational Examination of Whether to Buy Your Child a Churro
February 6th, 2018 | by Cheryl Klein
I married a loose woman. Before our first date, she warned me “I’ll try to be on time, but I
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