Backing Into Reality: How I Learned to Let My Son Live with Consequences
I had to back into a police car to recognize that my son needs to live his own life. My son has been entangled with the law for nearly ten years. In a stomach-burning flip, I saw that in the guise of love, I’d been enabling him. Me. His mother.
*An earlier version of this post mistakenly listed Kathryn Hively as the author instead of Roberta Faith Levine.