About Deadbeat Mom: Parenting A Child Whose Own Mother Refuses To
A darkly funny, painfully true account of unexpectedly raising someone else’s child while navigating an absent mother, family court, and a system that seems far more prepared for a deadbeat dad than a deadbeat mom. Deadbeat moms may be rare, but yet, here we are...
EP 008: The One-Star Yelp Review From The Zero-Star Mom
Welcome back to another episode of Deadbeat Mom, where parenting is apparently optional, accountability is considered harassment, and somehow I'm the villain for expecting a mother to spend time with her own child. This week, we're diving deeper into the Veronica Cinematic Universe, where a court-ordered parenting app becomes an insurmountable obstacle, a school backpack becomes a national emergency, and Veronica continues her lifelong commitment to making absolutely everything my fault. But ...
21 Oct 2026
EP 007: Veronica's Exchange Fumble Of The Week: Flaky Friday, Shady Saturday
Just when we thought Veronica had exhausted every possible excuse for avoiding her court-ordered parenting time, she apparently decided to expand her résumé to include amateur hide-and-seek champion and pathological bullshit artist. 🏆 This week, Grandma and Marco arrive at the designated exchange location, ready to hand over the parenting responsibilities Veronica seems so determined to avoid. There’s just one tiny problem. VERONICA IS HIDING. 👀 Not metaphorically. Not figuratively. This woma...
18 Oct 2026
EP 006: Veronica's Down With O.P.P. - Other People's Parenting (Yeah, You Know Her...)
🎶 You down with OPP? YEAH, YOU KNOW HER! 🎶 We’re kicking things off with our weekly check-in of WILL SHE OR WON’T SHE?! Because in the Veronica Cinematic Universe, court-ordered parenting time is apparently more of a suggestion than an actual obligation. It’s Thursday. The excuses are warming up. Friday’s looking questionable. Saturday’s anybody’s guess. And somewhere in the middle of this scheduling shitshow, the rest of us are expected to remain on standby until Veronica decides whether mot...
3 Oct 2026
EP 005: Veronica Discovers 'Deadbeat Mom' *GASP*: An In-Depth-ish Analysis
Welcome to Episode 5, where the Veronica Cinematic Universe delivers a plot twist absolutely nobody ordered: Veronica found the podcast. And, apparently, she has thoughts. Lots of them. 📱💥 So naturally, we’re going to discuss those thoughts. Because if you’re going to voluntarily subscribe to a podcast about yourself and then provide fresh source material, it would be downright rude of me not to acknowledge your contribution. Among Veronica’s concerns: my age, which she appears significantly ...
2 Oct 2026
EP 004: It's Friday. Do You Know Where Your Mother Is?
Friday. The end of the workweek. The beginning of the weekend. A day generally welcomed by the human population. Unless, apparently, you’re Veronica and Friday comes with the horrifying expectation that you participate in parenting your own child. Since school started, we have had seven Fridays: August 14, 21, 28, September 4, 11, 18, and 25. And somehow, against mathematical odds that should probably be studied by NASA, Veronica has managed to turn Every. Single. One. into some f...
25 Sept 2026
EP 003: Veronica The Vandal
Four days. That is how long Veronica knew where I lived before I walked downstairs one evening and discovered that the rear passenger-side window of my car had been smashed to absolute shit. Now, am I saying Veronica did it? No. Because unlike Veronica, I understand that accusations generally work better when accompanied by evidence. What I am saying is that my car had somehow managed to survive its entire existence without being randomly attacked…right up until Veronica learned m...
20 Sept 2026
EP 002: The Police Come A-Knockin'
Kindergarten arrives, Veronica briefly clocks back into motherhood, and suddenly everybody gets to experience her unique management style: do none of the work, maintain all of the authority, and demand to speak to the manager when the people actually raising your kid stop taking orders. After Marco’s dad and I scramble to get him enrolled in school, Veronica discovers that parenting apparently involves inconvenient things like showing up, picking up your own child, and participating on days t...
16 Sept 2026
EP 001: How Did I End Up With This Kid?!?
Meet Veronica, the deadbeat mom. Meet Marco, her son. And meet me, the woman who somehow went from Dad’s girlfriend to apparently raising somebody else’s kid without so much as an orientation packet. In Episode 1, I explain how Marco slowly ended up living with us, how Veronica slowly stopped showing up, and how kindergarten took an already questionable situation and blew the doors clean off. Because nothing exposes dysfunctional parenting quite like a school expecting you to actually parent....
16 Sept 2026
[TRAILER] Introducing "DEADBEAT MOM: PARENTING A CHILD WHOSE OWN MOTHER REFUSES TO"
My name's Roz. I met a guy. He came with a kid. The kid came with a mother. Somehow, I ended up with the job. Welcome to Deadbeat Mom: Parenting a Child Whose Own Mother Refuses To, the painfully true and darkly funny story of how I accidentally became the primary mother figure to a child who already has a perfectly living, breathing, occasionally appearing biological mother. I’ll be sharing the missed visits, broken promises, bizarre excuses, courtroom adventures, text-message masterpieces, ...
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