The School for Good Mothers: A Novel

I read this book from start to finish in one sitting. Once I’d read the first chapter I was unable to put it down. The series of events that leads this mother to be separated from her daughter Harriet, an 18 month old toddler, the punishment in which she is ordered to endure by the authorities in order to ever see her baby again is absolutely devastating and several times it was beyond difficult to finish reading what she was enduring let alone process it. This is an extremely eye opening experience that certainly deserves to be shared and appreciated as one can undoubtedly determine the outrageous boundaries from which authorities have no regard for, that circumstances are not all the same nor are choices or situations from which others choose from. Individual rights and responsibilities must be taken into consideration when assessing a mothers rights to raising her child and I’ve always been wholeheartedly supportive with the mothers having the custodial time and rights but the courts aren’t always fair in their decisions or handling individual cases such as ensuring these mothers have access to all resources necessary to support their child and themselves while raising them without the financial resources needed and the financial resources they had once available to them when together with the other parent. If her finances are halved or altogether taken away it makes a very stressed and impossibly impoverishing lifestyle and hardships that are compounded by the stress of raising children to her very best ability it is impossible to parent at best levels when extremely stressed beyond belief with financial difficulties or perhaps she is unable to find work having given her whole life to raising children and keeping household responsibilities strictly to her own responsibilities relieving the male of any external factors or pressures enabling him to be focused on only his job career and successes within his career awarding him financial compensation and stability as well as excellent credit and years of experience and participation in career development. She is not currently able to find a job that compensates her equally nor does she have the years of experience because she sacrificed everything for his betterment and her children’s lives by being at home. When the males leave I think it’s deplorable they should be considered for any kind of custodial rights until children are in teens and during academic year no sleeping outside their mothers home nor on weekends until they’ve reached high school levels. All the more, she and her children should be given the same financial compensation that they’ve always been used to and that this man can absolutely afford. Moreover, she should be given promise that he will use visitation while she’s on trainings or in school to ensure she has a career and the opportunities that her husband had solely due to her sacrifice and enabled him to work while she handled all household matters. This is one of these cases in which the male leaves her so extremely ill equipped to find substantial work, financial compensation or even the time the child care and the support system in which he received from her while he was beginning his own career in job force. He wasn’t emotionally or mentally concerned stressed or worried and distracted by raising his newborn, a toddler or any children. He didn’t need to remember or make the doctor dental and all other appointments that are necessary and required by the authorities for children to attend. This was a mother who prior to her husband leaving she had been an exemplary mother and caregiver. Had it not been the case, why 18 months later did this man wait to speak up? Perhaps she made an extremely poor choice yet why hadn’t he been held accountable for being checked out prior to this? Why not order him to provide more financially? To ensure her strength is on children not stressing about finances or shelter or job security? This book will make your heart hurt and your brain philosophize.

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My mom thought it was a joke. Now I pay rent.

I wouldn’t necessarily say I don’t recommend, but I didn’t finish the book because I found it a little too disturbing/unsettling.

This book was so disturbing. I was uncomfortable the whole time reading it. However, it was very well written and I could not put it down.

Enjoyed this book right from the very beginning.