Single, pregnant, 27 and with no job prospects or maternity leave past childbirth. SMILF’s basic bitch take on budgeting (clue: read Barefoot Investor), being Frugal As FuckTM and how to milk everyone into buying you baby shit (jokes). Sage advice from an idiot with no expertise, who names her bank accounts things like Bitch of Living & Treat Yoself, but is somehow savvy enough to live a little bit more than week to week. 

You’ve probably seen some scary statistics surfing around social media about missing children. Child trafficking statistics are being seen everywhere, and it’s eating into our worst fears as parents. ‘We need to talk about this more!’ ‘The media is hiding this from us’!. Let’s debunk some of the myths around child trafficking and sex abuse inflicted on minors, stranger danger, what trafficking really is (hot take: The mumfluencers crying ‘CHILD TRAFFICKING” aren’t cognisant that the cheap produce they/re flogging made in poor countries actually ties into child labour/trafficking itself). Let’s look at the history behind the laws of trafficking itself, why it’s tied deeply to immigration and race relations, and why mumfluencers sharing these stats, even though they appear to be helping, are actually advocating far-right pro-Trump sentiments (just because Epstein is a nasty child abuser, doesn’t mean all of Hollywood is #pizzagate). Ultimately, if you’re not for absolving systems effecting victims of DV, poverty, asylum seeking, immigration, minorities and POC, fair work trades across the board and forced marriage, then you’re not for truly wanting to #SaveTheChildren. Performative allyship, this time dipped in conspiracy propaganda, appealing to white mothers only - we meet again.