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[Gormy Cuss]

64. With due respect, the mother sounds overwhelmed.

Home health aides make little money and often have no benefits beyond the legally mandated UI and workers comp. This woman clearly is trying to make ends meet by doing the very responsible thing of having a roommate to share costs and by working graveyard shift when her children will be sleeping. If she's lucky, she's also getting a pay differential.

It's an ugly choice, to leave your young children alone for an hour or two because you can't find a better option. If that's the only neglectful thing she does I can promise you that having the children enter foster care WOULD NOT be a better situation because they would miss their mother. Far better and cheaper to provide the mother with the helping hand she needs to close the gap in her child care arrangement.