It didn't take long for police to recognize the magnitude of the Turpin children's horrifying realit

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2. I watched part of the show on this family last night. Wow, just wow. Shame is, lots of kids are in

this position, abandoned by family and/or friends, placed in a foster home or state institution which sometimes is worse or just as bad as the situation they were taken from. My other half and his sister were dumped by their parents who didn't want them anymore, so they were simply dumped at the doorstep of a shelter. And guess where the family was? No where to be seen. Even though the family (outside the immediate family) had told the two siblings that they would bring them into their home, they didn't...and instead came up w/ the usual nonsense on why they couldn't adopt them/care for them.

Ever since then, humanity has been downgraded in my mind several notches. My other half still has scars from those days (both of them were dumped off when they were 11 years old). Dumped off because their mom wanted to remarry.

My heart goes out to these kids (the Turpins) and my admiration increases daily as to how Jordan and the other kids have stepped up, and acted like the adults in the room when their parents (monsters) failed them so badly.