Mothers Everywhere UNITE
A friend of ours wants to be a mother so bad she would adopt any child you put in her lap. And yet this morning I read about a 3-year-old child that was left unattended in a car yesterday when the temperatures soared for not one hour but for many hours while the adult who was in charge of the child sat inside an air conditioned house not but a few feet away.
We all know how the story ends right? The child died. The adult is arrested.
But what if it were different? What if the United States, President Obama, and every other person within hundreds of miles of this country decided that every child deserves a good parent? What if every mother or father no matter what their age, their resources, their gender identity, could be a parent and every person who gives birth to a child who does not have the wherewithal be counseled and offered a match – a matching being an adult who does want to parent.
Instead the U.S. is filled with zillions of laws and policies and attorneys who make the process cumbersome if not downright impossible.
I pulled out the child books again because Tin is entering a disequilibrium phase where we are having to discipline more often than not. I was reading the Three Year Old book that states this is the age when the child really leans into his mother, really wants his mother’s help, really is a sweetheart even while acknowledging his independence.
Then I read about the three year old who was left in the hot car to die.
It makes you want to get a bus and run around collecting all those kids who are being neglected and reassign them to homes, to parents, to responsible adults.
What a fucking shame.