“What a horrible mother:” How a call from a “good samaritan” derailed these mothers’ lives - Salon.com

by ParentCo. April 20, 2015

"In the months that followed my ordeal, I struggled to see myself as that stranger had seen me—not a mother running an errand, making a judgment call, juggling demands, but a criminal, a threat to my own child’s safety, a social problem to be dealt with as quickly and as anonymously as possible." “What a horrible mother:” How a call from a “good samaritan” derailed these mothers’ lives - Salon.com.


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