The Not Good Enough Mother Audiobook (Free)

A psychologist who evaluates the fitness of parents when their children have been taken off their custody finds herself reassessing her very own mothering when her kid falls victim towards the opioid crisis.

Psychologist and professional witness Dr. Sharon Lamb evaluates parents, especially in high-stakes instances regarding the termination of parental rights. The conclusions she gets to can mean that some children are returned home from foster homes. Others are freed for adoption. Well-trained, Lamb about The INADEQUATE Mom generally can decide what’s in the best interests of the child. However when her son’s have a problem with opioid cravings comes to light, she begins to question her to make judgments about various other mothers.

As an expert, a teacher, and a mother, Lamb gives voice towards the near impossible specifications demanded by a society susceptible to blame mothers when anything befalls their children. She represents vividly the plight of individual parents, mothers in particular, struggling with obsession and mental illness and trying to make stable homes because of their children amid the economic and psychological turmoil of their lives-all in the framework of the opioid epidemic which has ravaged her house state of Vermont. In her office, during visits using their kids, and in the family court, the parents we meet up with wait around anxiously for Lamb’s verdict: Have they changed their lives around under kid welfare’s watchful eyesight? Perform they understand their children’s requirements? In a nutshell, are they sufficient? But what is sufficient? Lamb changes that question on herself in the midst of her steady realization of her son’s opioid cravings. Astonished at her own denial, sense powerless to greatly help him, Lamb confronts the heartache she may bring in to the lives of others and her power to tear families apart.