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We need to talk about Boy Moms

Jenny Mollen’s viral post about her son echoes a long history of mothers who refuse to cut the cord

Published June 4, 2026 9:00AM (EDT)

“We can’t put him in that,” were the first words out of my mouth when my then-husband showed me one of the baby items his mother had sent for our son: a onesie printed with the outline of a muffin and the words “Mommy’s Little Stud Muffin” in bright-blue curlicued script. It was 2009, “funny” onesies were a whole thing, and though it was hard to imagine what would make a parent put their infant in a garment that bragged “Hung like a 1st grader” or “I drink at mommy’s snack bar,” someone out there was buying these things. My mother-in-law wasn’t one for raunch; she probably just thought the onesie was silly and cute. It went straight into a donation box anyway.

Boy Moms stand alone, the main characters in what often seem like one-woman romantic tragedies of doomed longing. The lack of a son’s POV makes Boy Mom pining both performative and disturbingly real.

This memory surfaced the other day when I saw the flurry of Instagram chatter about Jenny Mollen, who recently posted photos of herself........

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