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Speaking As If They Know: Legislators and Reproductive Rights

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Legislators in Maine and across the country debate now bills to limit Reproductive Rights. Their limited or completely absent knowledge of the dep...

The Indifference Diaries, Part Four: Adventures in the Skin Trade and Child Maltreatment

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

The murders of four children at the hands of caretakers were adjudicated by Maine's court system recently. As the last days of a child whose grandf...

"All Happy Families are Like One Another; Each Unhappy Family is Unhappy in Its Own Way" : The Holidays and Divorce

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: "May all beings be well and happy, May all beings be harmonious and peaceful, May all have the light, The way out of suffering, The way home..., Credit: Bodhisaatva Vow

Some holiday recommendations for divorced parents, the American Bar Association and all who re-cast the spell of Santa Claus every year.

The 60 Second Moral Inquiry: Isn't Exploitation of the Instinct for a Parent-Child Bond Similar to Sex Traffickers Exploitation?

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook

Today's Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks, how is Attorney General Sessions' indifference to exploitation of the basic human instinct for parent-chi...

The Indifference Diaries, Part 3. Using Good To Create Evil, Seizing the Parent/Child Bond to Punish

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Being of the wrong lineage, in the wrong place, at the wrong time, now carries devastating consequences for the children of parents caught crossing...

How to Be Invisible, Part 2: Preventing Maltreatment By Listening to Someone Else

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: Robert Indiana grew up in a home where the word love was never said., Credit: Susan Cook photo of AP photo

Our society has systematically discredited women's ability to know themselves, their bodies and their ability to parent. Child maltreatment, Harvey...

How To Be Invisible: Love Alone Does Not Prevent Child Maltreatment

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: In Robert Indiana's childhood home, the word "love" was never spoken. , Credit: Photo of AP/ Susan Cook

We know in 2018 that invisibility of the child places the child at very high risk for maltreatment. The more invisible the child, the more likely ...

The Indifference Diaries, Part 2: Giving Three Million Dollars to Corporations While Maltreated Children Wait

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Maine's children receive grossly inadequate services from Child Protective Services. Three have been murdered or had a perpetrator convicted in Mai...

Seeing Consequence Before It Happens: Asking Questions about Children who are Suffering, Noticing the Answer

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: Seeing consequence before it happens..., Credit: Susan Cook

We know the consequence of indifference.In late 2017, Maine witnessed 3 murders of children: 2 by foster care-takers, one at the hands of the no...

A Citizen's Guide: Where Not To Look For Good Husband or For That Matter Father Material

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: No Increased ChildCare Credit or ChildHealthcare $ from US Senate Tax Overmaul, Credit: Susan Cook

The recently passed Tax Overhaul bill declined to increase the child care credit while leaving no money for the Children's Health Insurance Program...

The Little Prince and His Imaginary Rose: Her Imaginary Care and The Proprietary Life

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

I’m not sure how one marries the proprietary "I give the right to life” to the “I give the right to life free from emotional and physical torment...

Elisheva and Amaris: An Army of Two

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Caption: Elisheva and Amaris, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo

Elisheva and Amaris, mother and daughter, know a thing or two about uphill battles where every inch of gained ground costs dearly. Each in her way ...