Many of us would recognize these woe-burdened children on home ground.
And despite lingering economic woes, parents with children in grades K-12 are expected to spend an average of $688 this year, up from $603 in 2011.
The odds are stacked against us, but we have to try, if only so we don't inflict the same needless woe on our children that our parents inflicted on us.
They move further south, to manage another ruined farm, but their lives there amount to little more than a chain of calamities and woes: a newborn child dies (Alexandra has already lost two siblings), the weather is relentless and debilitating, and Fuller monitors, out of the corner of her eye, her mother's slow decline into alcoholism and madness.
She runs off a long list of the circumstances that can trigger depression: loss of a loved one, job, or key identity; things that cause feelings of failure, shame, or humiliation; a natural disaster that overturns your life, like the recent hurricanes in Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico; financial woes and anxiety; child abuse; domestic violence.
And this time, no one is saying the center will put an end to all employee child care woes.
It really is quietly bizarre, yet never behaves as if it is anything other than a realist study of a small child's woes.
Ms. Metcalf, who won an Obie Award for "The Other Place" in 2011, plays Juliana Smithton, a brilliant biophysicist whose self-described woes involve a missing child, a wonder drug and an unfaithful husband.
But in Dahia last night there were no signs of woe to be found: children, draped in Hizbullah flags, played with balloons adorned with the visage of the wildly popular Nasrallah, while men and women together cheered their support for the leader.
I love sleep (and woe to the child who interrupts it).
