Why no one condemns the parents of two girls

Jasmin 2022-04-19 09:03:00

After reading it, it is very heavy. I can understand the things that a family whose body and mind have been distorted by the pressure of life can do. But I can't understand why the children's parents can leave 2 underage children, hand them over to strangers they don't know, and leave them in danger without fulfilling their responsibility to protect.

Especially the father, who proposed to the mother to keep the child and go out on his own, couldn't stand the perverted woman's words, and left his child without understanding the family of the other party.

I think of the left-behind children whose parents go out to work and are left at home to be taken care of by their grandmothers and grandfathers. Although their parents did not leave them in the care of strangers, what a gloomy life would be for a child without parental care. Who will protect them from the danger they encounter?

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  • Gertrude Baniszewski: You know what it's like to be sick, Sylvia. I've been sick for so long, too. I can't... discipline my kids they was I should. I punish them I know, but... sometimes with my medicine I gets so I don't know what I'm doing.

    [begins to cry]

    Gertrude Baniszewski: And I care for them so much. Paula, the thing is... Paula's a lot like me. I had her when I was just about your age. Then Stephanie. Then all the others. Then John left... And here I am on medicine, doing whatever I can to keep my family together. I want something better for Paula... There has to be something better... And I need to protect my children...

    [cries]

    Gertrude Baniszewski: Do you understand that? You kids... you're all I've got... Thank you, Sylvia. Thank you for understanding, thank you.

  • Sylvia Likens: She sacrificed me to protect her children, and she sacrificed her children to protect herself.