A nineteenth-century Danish philosopher wrote, “To become better or seem to be better by means of comparison with the badness of others is, after all, a bad way to become better.” In media-modern/middle-America, depictions of motherhood are replete with a rhetoric of comparison, badness, and being better. New technologies (from sippy-cups to prenatal diagnosis) have made their way into family life in part due to the threat of mommy-shame. As a 1914 baby-shirt advertisement put it simply: "Some Mothers Make Mistakes." Biotechnologies for timing, number, and quality control allow mothers with means to live within better homes and gardens. But they also allow for the titillating contrast of goodness and badness on television and in magazines, as viewers find ill-gotten solace from knowing our lives are less awry than that too-young, too-indiscriminate, or too-profligate mother. I propose that this rhetoric of shame is not conducive to Christian flourishing. The language of comparison does not make us better. Jesus invites people of Christian faith to move out of the Good Housekeeping Panopticon, into a risky, Pentecostal solidarity from sister to sister, and, I dare say, from brother to sister. This may allow for a truly Christian bioethic of family life.