But they also shouted back at the programme, discomfited by the judgment and humiliation meted out to the mothers featured.
Crime fiction, meanwhile, is saturated with imperfect mothers, from the heroine of Gilly Macmillan's debut Burnt Paper Sky, who loses her son on a walk in the park, to Alex Marwood's The Darkest Secret, in which none of the mothers featured, good, bad, or apparently indifferent, is quite as she initially seems.
The few mature mothers featured this year -- among them Ellen Burstyn, a best actress nominee for her role as a diet-pill junkie in "Requiem for a Dream" and Amy Irving playing a mother-with-a-mysterious-drug-past in "Traffic" -- are hardly valentines to motherhood.
It's unfortunate that one of the mothers featured in your article feels the need to call on a paid third party to manage her energized son because, as she puts it, "I really don't enjoy playing football all that much, I don't want to read Captain Underpants, I really don't want to look through your Lego catalog".
Since completing the film, Porter has received encouraging updates from Schroeder about two of the mothers featured: Katerina, sixteen, who was out of school at the time the film was made, has reënrolled in high school, and Monique, eighteen, who had to stop working because she couldn't afford childcare, has found a new job.
Likewise I managed to get The Complete BUDDHISM for Mothers featuring Sarah Napthali's three best-selling books from a local library that was closing.
Nico Mazza is currently working on a new series titled Portraits of My Mothers, featuring embroideries based on stories, anecdotes or feelings she's collected from the women who raised her.
But a few decided to look past that, and focus on the fact that one of the mothers featured spent £20 a week on wine and had dyed hair and pointed out that you could buy a lot of food for that money.
The stamps on the package from Levi's mother featured "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus".
