Are Black mothers being placed under a more intense lens and if so, what inspires this push to hold such expectations for Black women to be good mothers? A “Good” Black Mother  In 2014, the Times wrote an Op-Ed titled, “The Impossibility of the Good Black Mother,” by Tope Fadiran Charlton, who spoke about the experience and struggles in her position as a Black mother. In it, she recounts a car ride she received from a white mother who, at the end of the ride, asked if her child's father was “in the picture”. A question she felt would not

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