Whose Afraid of the Big, Bad Mama: Meddling and Mercenary Moms (in YA).

Actually, I am kind of afraid of the Other Mother.

More than a year ago, I tweeted about this article in the NY Times:  The Parent Problem in Young Adult Lit.  Some of the more choice quotes include:

"Like the clownish adults on the Disney Channel or "Modern Family," the not-in-charge, curiously diminished parent is just sort of there, part of the scenery."

"The most memorable 'bad guy' had become, in many cases, the mother, matching in pathos what the wicked stepmother once conjured in...