Mom you don’t have a right to bring me into a world and not prepare a place for me
Mom you don’t have a right to mistreat and resent me because you don’t like my father
Mom you don’t have a right to drag me from dysfunctional relationship to relationship looking for a love to satisfy your heart
Mom you don’t have a right to put me in harms way
Mom you don’t have a right to pawn me off on others to raise (grandparents, daycare, friends) so that you can work or party or because you don’t want to be bothered
Mom you don’t have the right to sacrifice me for drugs and alcohol
Mom you don’t have the right to remarry without considering how I would be affected
Mom you don’t have the right to sleep with so many men that you don’t know who my father is
Mom you don’t have the right to poison my mind against my father
Mom you don’t have the right to have more children than you can afford or have time to raise, leaving me in substandard living conditions
Mom you don’t have the right to love me last
Mom you don’t have the right to be selfish
Mom you don’t have the right to have another baby with another man, and treat my brother or sister better because you like their father the best
Mom you don’t have the right to have strange men living in your home and leave me unattended for them to do to me whatever they desire
Mom you don’t have the right to ignore the fact that the man in your life is abusing me
Mom you don’t have the right to have me, when you have not healed from your childhood trauma, thus inflicting trauma upon me
Mom you don’t have the right to not take your mental health medication, thus making my life an emotional roller coaster
Mom you don’t have the right to ignore me and not teach me and become upset when I allow friends and the streets to teach me
Mom you don’t have the right to go on a television show to find out who my father is, thus letting the world know that I am unwanted and unplanned
Mom you don’t have the right to move me from house to house, thus making it hard to trust and create friendships
Mom you don’t have the right to make me lie or help you lie so that you can receive aid from the government
Mom you don’t have the right to pick and choose when you want to parent
Mom you don’t have the right to allow yourself to be abused in front of me, causing me to worry and live in fear
Mom you don’t have the right to become angry when I become just like you
The Heart and Soul of Relationships 