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The Not Good Enough Mother

di Sharon Lamb

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Biography & Autobiography. Family & Relationships. Psychology. Nonfiction. HTML:A psychologist who evaluates the fitness of parents when their children have been removed from their custody finds herself reassessing her own mothering when her son falls victim to the opioid crisis.
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Psychologist and expert witness Dr. Sharon Lamb evaluates parents, particularly in high-stakes cases concerning the termination of parental rights. The conclusions she reaches can mean that some children are returned home from foster homes. Others are freed for adoption. Well-trained, Lamb generally can decide what??s in the best interests of the child. But when her son??s struggle with opioid addiction comes to light, she starts to doubt her right to make judgments about other mothers.

As an expert, a professor, and a mother, Lamb gives voice to the near impossible standards demanded by a society prone to blame mothers when anything befalls their children. She describes vividly the plight of individual parents, mothers in particular, struggling with addiction and mental illness and trying to make stable homes for their kids amid the economic and emotional turmoil of their lives??all in the context of the opioid epidemic that has ravaged her home state of Vermont. In her office, during visits with their children, and in the family court, the parents we meet wait anxiously for Lamb??s verdict: Have they turned their lives around under child welfare??s watchful eye? Do they understand their children??s needs? In short, are they good enough? But what is good enough? Lamb turns that question on herself in the midst of her gradual realization of her son??s opioid addiction. Amazed at her own denial, feeling powerless to help him, Lamb confronts the heartache she can bring into the lives of others and her power to… (altro)
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Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing.
The author is a psychologist and expert witness who evaluates parents and their children in cases where the courts and the child welfare system are trying to decide the best placement for a child. Much of the book describes her interactions with the children and parents and the tools she uses in making these life-changing decisions.

As though looking into a mirror while assessing these situations, she also evaluates her own role as a mother to two boys, one who falls victim to drug abuse, and she is forced to ask if she, herself, is a good enough mother.

Deeply insightful and thought-provoking! ( )
  pinklady60 | Oct 5, 2019 |
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It's always difficult to walk the line between judging and being judged. I am always interested in people who consider themselves above reproach to the degree that they feel comfortable enough to make these types of decisions. This book was deep and well-written and gave me insight into this profession and the the fallible people who work and mother between the two. ( )
  Litgirl7 | Aug 30, 2019 |
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A beautifully written, challenging memoir by a therapist who evaluates children and families for Vermont’s DCF to see where the children should stay or be placed. One of Lamb’s own sons struggles with a heroin addiction (which she denied for a while), influencing her musings on what it means to be a good enough mother and on when we should look at outcomes or behaviors, or some combination. I found it quite striking that she recounted an anecdote from Amy Chua’s well-known account of her “Tiger Mother” upbringing of her two children—Chua recalled ripping up a handmade Mother’s Day card because the art was too sloppy. If Lamb had been evaluating Chua, that could have cost her custody. But of course Yale Law professors don’t get the state evaluating their parenting in that way, and maybe it matters that they had stable employment and no obviously out-of-control addictions; maybe it matters that her daughters grew up to get good educations (hell, one of them is about to clerk for Kavanaugh). It was heartbreaking to read about “mothers who canot stand for their children to want them, to need them. In attachment terms, it brings to mind for them, to the unconscious mind, their own unreliable mothers.”

Lamb was surprisingly-to-me empathetic to men who were physically violent; at some points I felt she lumped yelling at, demeaning, and hitting children together. (She even says she doesn’t trust herself to gauge what’s an okay amount of male aggression—but what do we do with that?) I do think it’s a relevant question to ask whether a man who hits his partner can ever be trusted: is there really no coming back? Doesn’t it matter that his kids may well love him deeply and be harmed by being taken away from him, even if they also risk harm in staying?

The book got me to reflect on the vagaries of both fate and the state's attention. Life is unpredictable and so what happens may happen even if we do everything as well as we can (and nobody can, and there is no such thing as perfect mothering), and this extends to addiction as well. When Lamb notices that it’s almost impossible to distinguish between sham and real addiction treatment centers, if there’s even a distinction, it echoes her observations about the differences between good enough and not good enough mothers. ( )
1 vota rivkat | Aug 15, 2019 |
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Part of my job is to review the reports prepared by social workers as they make decisions regarding the placement of children who have been removed from the custody of their parents. In doing so, I have always given great weight to the opinions of therapists and psychologists who evaluate the children, their biological parents, and their foster parents. Never before have I had the opportunity to consider what goes into those evaluations, how their performance affects the evaluators, and how the evaluators' lives might influence their opinions. Sharon Lamb's open and honest writing about her professional life, and how it influenced and was influenced by her personal life, is a revelation. Lamb could be any one of us, struggling to balance work and home life, worrying about how one affects the other, and deciding what to do when reality pulls us from the assumption that we have it all together. Lamb's honesty and easy writing style will give hope to any parent or parental figure who fears they caused or exacerbated their child's problems, and who struggles with how to respond. **I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.** ( )
  JSBancroft | Aug 6, 2019 |
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I'm a strong believer in God sends you tools when you have a problem to fix. When I received the book The not good enough mother, I decided that since I'm an empty nester I will immediately read this book and write my review.
I started reading this not realizing that this was the tool to fix my problem! Sharon lamb writes about her experiences personally and professionally in working with women, children and creating or upsetting families through the DCF system.
Sharon shared so much of her thought process that it brought me out of my self-imposed prison of self doubt of motherhood. Especially being an empty nester raised two boys. One came with the marriage and the other we made from scratch. I associate with a lot of the parts of the not good enough mother and feel that this is a wonderful tool that everybody should have in their library toolbox. I found the Sharon lamb wrote a book that helps mothers the process our work our life, are flaws and our amazing moments. My takeaway of this book is that I learned from it, I State my parental flaws to my kids with apologies, and I enjoy the special memories we have and the great ones to come with a comforted heart. ( )
  ldr259 | Aug 3, 2019 |
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Biography & Autobiography. Family & Relationships. Psychology. Nonfiction. HTML:A psychologist who evaluates the fitness of parents when their children have been removed from their custody finds herself reassessing her own mothering when her son falls victim to the opioid crisis.

Psychologist and expert witness Dr. Sharon Lamb evaluates parents, particularly in high-stakes cases concerning the termination of parental rights. The conclusions she reaches can mean that some children are returned home from foster homes. Others are freed for adoption. Well-trained, Lamb generally can decide what??s in the best interests of the child. But when her son??s struggle with opioid addiction comes to light, she starts to doubt her right to make judgments about other mothers.

As an expert, a professor, and a mother, Lamb gives voice to the near impossible standards demanded by a society prone to blame mothers when anything befalls their children. She describes vividly the plight of individual parents, mothers in particular, struggling with addiction and mental illness and trying to make stable homes for their kids amid the economic and emotional turmoil of their lives??all in the context of the opioid epidemic that has ravaged her home state of Vermont. In her office, during visits with their children, and in the family court, the parents we meet wait anxiously for Lamb??s verdict: Have they turned their lives around under child welfare??s watchful eye? Do they understand their children??s needs? In short, are they good enough? But what is good enough? Lamb turns that question on herself in the midst of her gradual realization of her son??s opioid addiction. Amazed at her own denial, feeling powerless to help him, Lamb confronts the heartache she can bring into the lives of others and her power to

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