Mommy, Why So Many Daddies?

Horror fiction was never this shocking...because Mommy, Why So Many Daddies? by Esther Roses is, unfortunately, no work of fiction.

Although the author puts words in the mouths of the five half-siblings depicted by the book, she assures us that all the incidents, however horrific, are true. There is child abuse, infanticide (and the polite term for murdering a baby or toddler does not make the incident any less shocking), and of course the repeated gaming of the Welfare system by the "serial mom" whose procession of different men through her life results in a series of unplanned, unfed, uncared-for, unloved children.

The children are made to call each of these successive men "Daddy," but there is no love between each of these men and the children...and there is no love among the children, either, only rivalry, enmity, anger, and hate.

Written partly from the children's viewpoint and partly from the author's own (the author is a Ph.D. candidate), this is definitely not a feel-good book.
But it is a book that must be read, a story that must be heard, about a situation that must be addressed.