Angry mothers often call, for reasons as varied as their suffering. They have lost a job. They have relapsed. They have gone to jail, or come out of it. They have been evicted. They have landed in the hospital. They have run out of food stamps. They are having another baby. Any one of these events can make a mother pine for her missing child—especially if that child is the oldest, the strongest, the one capable enough to have left in the first place.
