Reply #27: I have talked to a mental health person

[Stargazer99]

That cannot solve the problem of poverty or the sick patterns of abuse given to my children because I could not get help fast enough to show them a healthy way of living. And one of the reasons is staying with the abuser because I could not provide for my children without that help. Leave your abuser and you live with need and not able to provide your children enough time to help them grow and give them safety of being there when needed (who is taking care of the children while you are working? realtives? you gotta be kidding! It takes an hour and half to get home each way from work. Meanwhile your children must get up at 5am in the morning and walk to the sitters and must sit on the daveno and do nothing until school time. At least when with the abuser the children could get up at a good hour and I could walk them to school (a sexual preditor had tried to get one of them). Yah, you tell me how easy it is. The reality is the situation is so difficult that you will not look at it because there is no solution. A social worker cannot change the situation in which one lives when options are not available. yes, I am angry and frustrated and it is no damn wonder.