Unfortunately, a lot of my life and family drama revolves around bad mothers, and it is truly amazing to me how people can be this way. My brother has 4 beautiful little girls, 2 of which are by his 1st wife. She was always a great mom, but in the last year she's slowly become less involved, and the last 6 months has been MIA, missing birthdays, refusing to see them on mothers day, and generally refusing to be a part of their lives, even though it has completely devastated them. Now she has the nerve to take my brother to court for contempt of their divorce decree, which states the kids have 6 months of time with each parent. She's the one that disappeared! How in the world could you go 6 months without even calling to see if your kids are okay? I just don't understand how you can completely forget that you are a mother! It just absolutely infuriates me. To sit in a house full of drug addicts getting high while you completely miss the most important times of your daughters lives, that's just awful. It absolutely breaks my heart to have to hear my nieces ask why mommy isn't there. How do you even answer that? They're too smart to make up some answer to comfort them, but you still can't tell a child that they're mother doesn't want them, even though they already assume that themselves. Everything about this situation is just horrible, and it makes me so angry to see what she's done to my girls! They're so beautiful and smart, I just couldn't imagine not being there to watch them grow up. Sorry this is so long, I just didn't have anywhere else to speak my mind.