Tag: mothering

  • Remembering the mothers of the ‘disappeared’

    Remembering the mothers of the ‘disappeared’

    When I was a young child, my family lived in Chile, where my parents worked at an inter-Protestant seminary. We happened to be there to witness the end of the brutal, U.S.-backed military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, as he was peacefully voted out of power in the late 1980s. Even as a child, I knew…