What happened to J.D. Vance's mother?

Vance was born on August 2, 1984, in Middletown, Ohio to parents Donald Bowman and Bev Vance.

In June 2016, he published his memoir “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis”. The book was a massive hit and remained on the New York Times Bestseller list for two years. The book was also a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Price in 2017. The book is about the Appalachian values of his upbringing and their relation to the social problems of his hometown.

What happened to J.D. Vance’s mother?

At nineteen, JD Vance’s mother gave birth to a child (JD’s older sister Lindsay), filed for divorce, and began life anew as a single mom. After remarrying in 1983, she gave birth to JD in 1984, in Middletown.

JD Vance’s mother began to turn to drugs and alcohol and started having numerous affairs with strange men who would suddenly appear and then disappear from JD’s life. As a result, JD and his sister grew to have no idea of how a man ought to treat his family and were without any true father figure at all.

Things came to a head when she tried to kill herself by crashing her car into a telephone pole. When she was released from the hospital, things only deteriorated further. The kids got a full view of the extent of their mother’s dysfunction, as she would stay out all night with new friends that JD and Lindsay had never met before. She would also subject them to extreme emotional outbursts and episodes of physical violence.

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