Super Moms High on Drugs: Motherhood and Addiction

Rachael Brownell (Redsy) — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:24:00 GMT

Super moms, Alpha Moms, the ladies who bake cookies for Billy's class at 3AM have a little helper. And it's not a cocktail. It's meth. Need energy and help with weight loss? Meth is the drug for you. Of course the drug is illegal and there are also sizable risks associated with using (jail time, meth mouth, kids taken away). Still, you won't believe how much stuff you'll get done!

Seriously. What gives with the pressure on mothers to be perfect (or at least thin with a clean house, pretty kids, and a successful career and marriage)??

If ever there were a recipe for addiction it is surely the pressure to keep up appearances. Even though most women won't turn to meth or heroine or cocaine to get through the day, plenty drink too much. And if you're so stressed out that you have to numb yourself to get through, does it matter what tool you use? Something terrible is going on underneath the Stepford veneer of competi-mommying. If mothers have to get high (or drunk or stoned) to get Alpha or get "good" then maybe the endeavor of motherhood as currently constructed is untenable.

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Super Moms High on Drugs: Motherhood and Addiction