Broken Bones: America’s Violent Indifference toward Women

A meditation on the realization that girls and women are fundamentally uncared for in this country.

“The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference.” ~Elie Wiesel

When I became a parent, nearly five years ago, a dear friend sent me Maggie Smith’s famous poem “Good Bones.” I knew it. You know it. He knew that I would know it. (“Life is short, but I keep this from my children.”) But he wanted to make a point about how your perspective changes when yo…