I'm writing a screenplay for my thesis, and one of my characters is hiding the fact that her 7-year-old daughter was taken away by social services. Originally, I was saying it was because the mother took sleeping pills, trying to commit suicide, and the girl called 911 and Social Services found out. I was reading through the State of Virginia's policies with Child Protective Services (that's where the screenplay takes place), and but I don't think my reasoning would get a kid taken away.
So I'm thinking of maybe, while this mother is distraught over her situation, hits the kid, then takes the pills after regretting it? Would that work, do you think? I don't want to make the mother a drug user, that seems to be overdone in movies and things, and I don't want her to be a terrible mom that abuses her child or anything like that either. Like, this was a one-time thing, she makes a mistake, and it costs her by having her kid taken away. Do you think that's plausible?
2007-01-08
05:25:43
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