Alright, I know this person who is now 17 but had it rought growing up. Her dad was an alcoholic and a drugatic and very violent and was in jail more times than anybody could count. Her mother drunk, but not as bad as her dad. She never got to sleep at night because thats when her dad was worse, but yet she would still go to school the next day. He would come in her room in the middle of the night and drag her out of bed with a butcher knife in his hand. He destroyed everything they ever owned until finally they were so poor they didn't even have a pot to crap in. They didn't even have an outhouse....she had to use the bathroom behind her trailor on a pile of cement blocks. They had no electricity or even furniture(because he sold them for dope) and she had to sleep on the floor and cooked what little food they got on this small little kerosine heater that also heated their house. She was so scared growing up that her stomach hurt her alot. She always has had to take care of herself because nobody would do it for her. My question is, why wouldn't somebody help her? Like social services? I didn't know her until recently, but she said that they had been called many times but they never did anything but come talk to her once and a while. Her dad ended up killing himself (overdose) when she was 14, but then her mom started dating a man who had been in jail for rape. One night at around 3 in the morning when her and her mom was taking him home he tried to hit her and she decided she had had enough and got out of the car and walked to her grandmas. She lived with her for about a year until her mom finally came to her senses. She has a good relationship with her mom now, but couldn't something have happened sooner? I just don't understand why she had to go through all of that. What do you think?
2006-08-26
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