this is another thing i think about when seeing pictures like this. mothers are not goddamn saints. mami love is one strong as motha fucka. it protects children and families on a daily basis. if it weren’t so fucking strong, the entire already collapsing system would be chaos. period.
but. mothers are not fucking saints. and far too often, love isn’t enough to protect. there just isn’t enough of it, or it’s been stomped on for too fucking long, or it just was never there to begin with.
and my question is—why are we ok with making a mother’s love the only thing that stands in between child abuse and her mental health? why are we willing to trust that a mother will never break? and what responsibility does US culture have when she does break? any at all? are the only choices we *really* have in the US hoping and praying that a mother doesn’t take her (structural chronic) stress out on her child, and imprisonment when she does?
because that look on that mother’s face? that tense “crack into a million frozen peices” look all over her body? that’s still alive and well all over the bodies of mothers everywhere today.
and getting father’s more involved isn’t going to fix that shit.
(Source: iinventedeverything)
