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(Originally posted on: 06-29-07 03:08:16 PM)
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Yesterday I met a 2 year old whose father had been giving him cocaine, cigarettes, and beer. His mother is from Mexico, and the father is a Mexican-American. Basically, the father provided everything to keep them alive, but then kept them at home. The mother has been in America for 2 years but knows almost no English (which made working with her almost impossible without translators) and has not met a single person due to pretty much being held captive. Now she's terrified that he's after her.
On the other side, last week I had a woman who kept her syringes and crack spoon on the floor. In the same bedroom as her 7 year old daughter. This is after waking up and freaking out that she couldn't find her daughter. She was asleep in the same bedroom. On the bed. Because there was no physical abuse, Family Services figured she'd be better off with her mother. The next day the mother called crying wanting her stuff back. We'd given it to her the next day. While she was in the room and helped pack it herself.
What depresses me about such situations is that these children are going to end up living their lives the same way. It's a waste. During the resident intakes, the majority of these women and their abusers that I deal with all suffered some form of abuse or addictions during their childhoods as well. Not saying that EVERYBODY ends up that way, but the people who do seemed to mostly have all experienced the same shit. Incestual rape, father beat the mother, affairs, personal physical abuse, drug dealing out of the house, kept prisoner as an unwanted child by unloving parents, blah blah blah. The stuff you read about on the news and say "why didn't someone take that child out of there?!" is the stuff I work with. It's dirty.
Sadly, most of the residents I deal with don't care. They don't want to become independent - for now, they want to mooch off of us, then go out and find another man to become totally dependent on again. They have no job skills, no meaningful education for the most part, lack parenting skills, and don't care to acquire any of them. Once again, the children are the ones that will end up suffering for it later.
There are a few who actually take advantage of help. They want their children to have better lives. Those make the job easier. But still. Rough job. So how's life? 
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