When reached for comment, the Capulets answered “How now! who calls?” but hung up right away.

What a strong woman.

Chering is caring.

If we stopped treating poverty like it’s a character flaw, it’s obvious, to me at least, that it’s much easier and cheaper to provide the financial resources to bring the existing family unit up to code than it is to replicate the emotional security of familial love in foster care. But, no, we can’t help the poor too…

Completely agree. My time working abuse & neglect cases made me want to throw ALL the tax dollars at the problem because so much of it was just dealing with poverty and untreated mental illness. The whole system is so fucking classist/racist, too. There’s plenty of kids out there growing up in abusive homes who will…

Yeah, I do a little criminal defense and a lot of parent counsel stuff, and yup DA’s and OCS aren’t looking for love; they want average IQ and little bit of money. That’s what it really boils down to anyways. Most of my clients just can’t make that happen no matter how much they try. The thing is, and I try to remind…

So your answer is to tell impoverished single moms and single dads who are trying to do their best by their children working against a system waiting for them to fail and judging them when they do to “grow up”? Cool empathy, sis.

A 20 year veteran attorney in the Family Court system once told me the most depressing thing after I tried to convince her to cut my client (mom of kids in foster care) some slack by impressing upon her how deeply the woman loved her children. She said that in decades of doing the work she’d almost never encountered a…