You remember pobrecita Maribella the other day, the little redhead in Proper Parenting, the one whose boyfriend’s been dodging child support for the last two years? That story about how her fifteen-year-old son came home high after “basketball practice” and called her a bitch. Let me ask you something, Dear Lord, what exactly are we supposed to do with children like this? And what do we do when the men disappear and we have to raise them ourselves? You tell me, Dear Lord. Do we beat them? And if so, how hard? How long? And how can we stand the weight of our own hands on our children’s bodies?
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