CNU-At my mother’s Sunday dinner, my sister offered to take my five-year-old daugh…

custody.

Taryn was allowed no unsupervised contact with Madison.

My mother called me from an unknown number that evening.

I answered because I was tired and not thinking.

“You called CPS,” she said.

No hello. No how is Laya.

Just accusation.

“Yes.”

“You vindictive little bitch.”

The words were so familiar in tone, if not exact language, that I felt oddly calm.continue reading …