The new face of a bad mother

This is the new face of a bad mother.
Take a very good, hard look at it.
It could you be you.
And maybe you don't even realize it.

Yesterday I was judged.
It's temporary, they said.
Three weeks, they said.
It's "nothing," they said.

What is three weeks to very young children?
What do you say to our very young children?
Who is caring for them?
No answer.
There was no order for him to be answerable to me.
And yet, we are not supposed to be stripped
Of our right to parent.

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