EP 001: How Did I End Up With This Kid?!?
Deadbeat Mom: Parenting A Child Whose Own Mother Refuses ToShow Notes
Meet Veronica, the deadbeat mom. Meet Marco, her son. And meet me, the woman who somehow went from Dad’s girlfriend to apparently raising somebody else’s kid without so much as an orientation packet. In Episode 1, I explain how Marco slowly ended up living with us, how Veronica slowly stopped showing up, and how kindergarten took an already questionable situation and blew the doors clean off. Because nothing exposes dysfunctional parenting quite like a school expecting you to actually parent....
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