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The Flawed-Mom Memoir My Kid Might Write

December 16th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein

People rarely write memoirs about purely happy childhoods

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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