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Every Mother Believes She Is Raising A Decent Man. Life Says Otherwise.

Sanni Lark
6 min readMay 27, 2022

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“Pretty much every woman believes her son is an angel. Well, why are your angels in jail cells? Why are your angels being arrested for violent crimes?”

“Your son was murdered. We’re trying to find out who did it.”

“What do you care?”

“It’s our job.”

“And my cross to bear.”

“Mrs. Moss, this isn’t about you.”

“No? If my son hadn’t been born those two women never would have been raped.”

Dialogue from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

You read the title of this article. And you may be wondering why I am not focusing on the fathers?

Allow me to explain.

You are a woman. Meaning, you are the first authority. You decided that boy of yours was worth bringing into this world. No matter how much a man begs for a child, it is always the woman who has the final say. So no, unless you were under 18 years old nobody forced you to have kids. Unless you were raped, pregnant, and kept hostage for nine months nobody, and I mean nobody, forced you to have kids.

So many women want to point fingers at the fathers of their children for why their kids turned out the way they did. The man isn’t…

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Sanni Lark
Sanni Lark

Written by Sanni Lark

Channeling sacred, unadulterated, feminine chaos and wisdom through writing. For more primordial womanhood activation visit: https://www.sannilark.com

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