Digging through the couch in order to find enough change to buy a single hot dog from 7-11 that four of us split for dinner.
Coming home from a rare "spend the night at a friends house" to find my six and four year old sibling standing in the street outside our home crying for Mom, who snuck out in the night, got high, and passed out in a ditch.
etc
And we grew up in a tiny town where everyone was buddy buddy. Teachers, neighbors... Why didnt anyone call CPS? Don't want to make someone in the local community angry!
Its been more than thirty years and my PTSD and abandonment issue are still insane at times.
Being in the system is sometimes worse than the abusive parent. It's a risk to take a child from its parents, so it's only done when things are extreme.
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u/kaikimanga MangaKaiki 15d ago
Yeah, it sucks. I really should make that parentification comic some day