I don’t doubt for a second that any government agent directly involved in this process must be a complete sicko, but we cannot shift focus away from the people who have large-scale power in this situation. Sure, border agents could make a show of disobeying orders and create chaos that makes enforcement more…

We live in a country that didn’t blink when children this age were annihilated at Sandy Hook. Unfortunately, this won’t do anything either.

*Doctor

“White female nurses and school teachers are usually married to cops.”

I’m lucky in that he actually does school drop off, volunteers at the school, etc. I wish that I could do those things. On the rare occassion that I do make it to a school function, there’s always at least one snide comment from another mom about how they don’t often see me or thought that he was a single dad, and it…

Buddy, “due process” doesn’t apply in the Court of Public Opinion, and if it ever did, it certainly hasn’t since... I don’t know, name your social media. Myspace?

Maron seems to own his assholishness.

Spoiled, entitled or a young woman whose life was turned upside-down?

Happy reunions are tough even years later.

Look, the bio mom is a victim, and she has a right to her feelings- but she needs to share them with family, friends, support group, pastor or therapist - not the press. Her daughter doesn’t need to see things like this and it will just make the gulf wider.

We know that the kidnapper is not her mother but she believes that she is and HER feelings are the ones that matter. Not the bio Mom’s, not the kidnapper, not ours, HERS are the only one that matters in this. Trying to force a different reality on her is why they are in this situation now. She doesn’t get it, even…

Not really. I think its less about being “mature” and more about having the empathy for your child that he or she is entitled to by virtue of that relationship. As a parent of a toddler, when she says things like “go away mommy” or “i dont want you mommy” I don’t get hurt or say “fine!” and flounce away, I just tell…

Being in pain doesn’t give you the right to inflict pain on someone else, believe that. Too many people make that mistake.

Glad she’s owning her feelings. We cannot blame Alexis (as she calls herself) - she was a newborn, she was raised by Williams, snowed like everyone else by Williams, was bonded to Williams. Of course she’s going to send the woman Mother’s Day cards and feel the need to be in contact with her: she has no memory of…

What a shitty, shitty comment by the birth mother.

Agreed. Of course this is made all the more heartbreaking by the fact that her daughter still loves the woman who kidnapped her, but she has to put herself in her daughter’s shoes - Williams may be a kidnapper but she was also her daughter’s mother, is still her daughter’s mother and you can’t undo that just because…

“I shouldn’t have to compete with a kidnapper—she has to pick one of us,” Shanara said.

No Mom, she doesn’t have to pick one of you, the kidnapper has been her Mother all of her life, it’s not going to stop because you wish it would . What you should do is try to understand instead of punishing your daughter. You’re the grown up here come on now.

I feel her pain but she needs to understand kidnapper or no, this is the only mother that child has known, and it is going to take awhile to process that the person that I love has also done a most horrible and despicable act.

Shitty as it was...that’s the woman she knows as her mother. This isn’t a 3 or 4 year old, so it’s not something you can “undo” in a few years.