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It is all just so unfortunate and the optics are bad. This is not a single mother on WIC. I can’t imagine the guilt compounded by the media dog-pile; they were both neglectful parents, but one is dead and he has the benefit of being male. It is important to separate the two events. She didn’t kill her husband and the Universe wasn’t punishing her for being a crappy MOM; however much the masses enjoy a tidy retribution story.[/quote]

How are the optics bad?  Rich couple staying in a fancy hotel in NYC could easily have afforded a babysitter and chosen instead to not only leave the kids in a hotel but one a block away.  This is pure neglect and she should be criminally charged and found guilty.  If she were poor, or of color or someone else, those kids would never go back to her and be placed for adoption.[/quote]

I agree with you, trash parenting.  I only wanted to point out that her deceased husband was also culpable and this is story makes fabulous click-bait because monied, elite-educated woman gets her comeuppance. It’s hard to parse the neglect from all the rest and it feels perilously close to blaming her for her husband’s death by maligning her materialism and bad Mom-ism. She just isn’t a sympathetic figure and I feel we have to watch our internalized misogyny.[/quote]

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