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Few, if any of her needs were met. Part of this that seems a canard on the part of the mother is the fact that she tested an IQ of 77, but had been a university student. I couldn't have gotten into my school with that IQ, and it's just your run of the mill university. I wonder if she screwed the test so as to garner better judgement conditions, or if years of drug abuse fucked her up? That's almost always the problem in cases where families are kept in squalor, or large numbers of pets are kept (as it sounds like the mother is currently doing).
There is always the odd case of somebody just being completely incompetent. That was the case here in DC recently with a sensational story about a borderline retarded woman who killed her daughters and stored the corpses because they had "demons". CPS failed big time in that case, as this woman had been reported multiple times. Case workers falsified documents about having visited her. While I sympathize with truly dedicated case workers, so many in DC get these positions as political favors in an entirely broken government welfare system.
As far as Dani and her hierarchy, children who survived the holocaust managed to rebound over years of perserverance, although most did not.
This story makes me re-think mandated sterilization.
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I think the Apocalypse is happening all around us. We go on eating desserts and watching TV. I know I do. I wish we were more capable of sustained passion and sustained resistance. We should be screaming and what we do is gossip. -Lydia Millet
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