"I felt the tug on my sleeve and looked down to find him standing motionless. His mouth was moving but I couldn’t make out his words. His quiet body in the noisy room caught me off guard. I bent down to find his voice."
"We drove past a homeless man on the corner. My kids asked, 'Are you going to give him money, mom?' I didn't. I was stressed and quickly snapped at my kids to get them to be quiet so I could focus on driving."
"She and her husband Rob (who is a paraplegic) recently received an eviction notice at their apartment and have been living off of cheese. She also recently lost her job due to Covid."
"It is 10 degrees and freezing cold. I look at his car and see his wife in the front seat covering her face and 2 teenage girls both cuddling under a blanket in the back seat."
You pay to shower at local truck stops and eat whatever can be cooked in a gas station microwave. Someone sees you and your daughter living like this and calls CPS; guess what happens next. They remove your child from your care. As if this isn’t devastating enough, you lose your job too, because “an employee losing their child reflects poorly on this company.”
