The Girl in the Window

[Chazzie]

http://www.tampabay.com/features/hum...icle750838.ece

Heartbreaking. At least she has a loving teaching family now...

[taurinejunkie]

Heartbreaking indeed. And apparently my heart is particularly hard.

[Chazzie]

Mine too, but I know it's horrible regardless. (I'm not really a kid person)

[Buglady]

Poor child. She'll never catch up after that kind of neglect, but thank God she is in a safe place.

I am sad also for the mother; she obviously had very little in the way of resources (financial, emotional or cognitive - the article says the mother's IQ was tested at 77, which is two standard deviations below average. Two SDs up puts you in genius range. Two down... not good). I wonder what will happen to the older boys - they are adults now, technically, but are they going to be able to manage independently? They won't have had much of a foundation from their mom.

We need to be able to help people in our communities before things get to a crisis point.

(Give me 4 years to get my Master's in Social Work; and one day I dream of fostering children as well).

[Ree]

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