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...some backtracking from that freewheeling attitude appears to have started well before the Schuler tragedy. Wilder-Taylor, for one, posted this on her website, Baby on Bored, on July 21: "Today marks 60 days on my sober calendar ... Wine, for me, was a friend, a lifestyle and (I thought) a choice." Famously tipsy mommy blogger Rachael Brownell's new book, Mommy Doesn't Drink Here Anymore, which hit stores Aug. 1, chronicles her first year of parenting sober. (Disclosure: I am the editor in chief of Babble.com, where Brownell was a blogger a couple of years ago, and my first...
...revelation that Schuler had been drinking prompted hundreds of disapproving comments on the community Café Mom. One typical posting: "What I want to know is not only why was she driving drunk but why the hell was she drinking when she had all of those kids with her anyways...
...recovering drinkers in the parenting blogosphere were more circumspect. "On the one hand it's easy to believe that Diane Schuler is so extreme and a crazy alcoholic," says Wilder-Taylor, "but on the other hand, according to the news, her husband and family had no idea she had a drinking problem. Her husband says he's never seen her drunk. It would seem there are a lot of people out there with alcohol and drug problems not being addressed due to shame or other factors, and in some cases it leads to tragic results...
...wake of the Schuler tragedy, the ad campaign seems outdated at best...
...cautionary tale' doesn't even touch what this is," says Brownell of the Schuler crash. "This is a worst-case scenario for what happens when people, mothers and fathers, have alcohol abuse and addiction issues that go untreated ... and unrecognized by loved ones. The amazing thing is that more cases like this don't happen every day." (See TIME's alcohol abuse covers...