“The Hague Abduction Convention was meant to reunite mothers and children. Instead, it’s often used by allegedly abusive fathers to tear them apart.”
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Mothering at the End of the World
“We went to North Carolina to see how mothers carry on when their world comes crashing down. Sometimes they hold each other.”
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Breastfeeding During a Heatwave
“How do we care for our children and the environment?”
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She Ate a Poppy Seed Salad Just Before Giving Birth. Then They Took Her Baby Away.
” Hospitals use drug tests that return false positives from poppy seed bagels, decongestants and Zantac. Yet newborns are being taken from parents based on the results.”
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Voices On Addiction: Speaking Ill Of The Dead
“It’s easier to be angry at a presence than an absence. It’s easier to push against the person who is doing things wrong than the person who is doing nothing at all.”
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Space to Breathe
“I can suction while gathering my spirits, while holding out for my son’s right to exist, to be present, to take up space, to interrupt ‘usual’ life.”
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On Mother Trees: What Old-Growth Trees Taught Me About Parenting
“I was helpful, but unlike the giving tree, I was not entirely happy.”
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Hungry Ghosts
“I think of all the hurts she can never outlive — the ghosts that can never be satisfied, no matter how much of herself she feeds to them.”
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Taken Under Fascism, Spain’s ‘Stolen Babies’ Are Learning the Truth
“Thousands of Spanish children were taken from hospitals and sold to wealthy Catholic families. This is Ana Belén Pintado’s story.”