My abusive mother was not a victim — and neither is Lindsay Clancy

You would think that growing up under an abusive, personality-disordered mother would immunize a writer like me from shock at women’s bad behavior. That’s what I always thought at least.

Then I witnessed the extraordinary outpouring of female sympathy for Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother who killed her three children in 2023.

Some Clancy girls now claim Lindsay’s poor husband, Patrick, actually killed the kids and framed her. How do they know this? Astrology of course.

Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, is now on trial for murder. Her children were Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, eight months old.

There is no dispute about who killed them. Clancy’s defense admits she strangled all three children with exercise bands in the basement of the family’s home while