Mother and Child Reunion (Degrassi: The Next Generation) Mother and Child Reunion (Degrassi: The Next Generation) "Mother and Child Reunion" is the two-part pilot episode of the Canadian teen drama television series "", which premiered on October 14, 2001 on the CTV Television Network. The episode was written by story editor Aaron Martin and series co-creator/creative consultant Yan Moore, and directed by Bruce McDonald. As with the majority of "Degrassi: The Next Generation" episodes, "Mother and Child Reunion" takes its title from a pop song, "Mother and Child Reunion", written and performed by Paul Simon. "Degrassi: The Next Generation" is the fourth series in the fictional Degrassi universe
The Mother/Child Papers which left her unable to feel anything from the waist down. Upon waking, Ostriker was furious about being deprived of the experience of natural childbirth and relates the invasion of her body by the medical professionals who delivered the child to the US invasion of Cambodia. The second section of the book is a series of related, untitled stream-of-consciousness poems alternating between the new mother and the child's perspective. In these sections, Ostriker explores the intimate, even erotic, relationship between a mother and her infant child. She expresses the different emotions she experienced towards the child during this time, from