“Good,” she said.

“Because accepting family support during a crisis does not make a parent unfit.

It makes a parent someone with a family.

The instinct to hide the help is exactly the instinct we have to break.

There is no shame in a father, at the lowest moment of his life, having a father of his own who shows up.

We are going to put that fact in the record, in plain daylight, and dare them to make it look like weakness.”