Crystal Nowland; How Society Loves to Hate an Imperfect Mother

Using hate to cover the lack of support struggling mothers receive in a deeply patriarchal and racist society

Crystal Nowland, mother of deceased six-year-old girl Charlie. Picture: Tom Huntley

Oh, how society loves to hate an imperfect woman, and an imperfect mother even more so. If she’s an imperfect mother at the bottom of the socio-economic pile then more hate is…