Reply #20: Anybody on This Thread

[RobinA]

have any experience operating a shelter for indigent women and children, or is everybody just talking through their hats?

What if the uncle has a coupla convictions for sexual abuse? Rape? Maybe he's the local drug dealer figuring those women at the shelter or easy targets for his wares. Maybe he's a sexual predator? The idea of a shelter is a place where women and children can be SAFE from the mayhem that unfortunately is frequently brought into their lives by men.

Shelters make rules crystal clear and they make the consequences crystal clear. Without enforcing them they will have the same chaos inside the shelter that the women are trying to escape from on the street. Maybe this woman should have thought of her children before she let the gut in.