Only Child, Only Love

Parents in the 1970s and 1980s used to receive a certificate like this: red, the same color as a marriage certificate, and called the “Certificate of Honor for Parents of an Only Child.” Behind this honor lie bittersweet stories of parents and children playing cat and mouse: parents who can never let go of their children, while the children try to escape the cage built from love...

“If something happens to you, I’ll take a knife and kill the person who hit you, then kill myself.”, Mom