I Said No to Babysitting. My Sister Sent Her Kids to My Old Address in a Taxi Anyway. She Didn’t Know I’d Moved. The Woman Who Answered the Door Was a CPS Detective.

children. We were, in the immediate sense, the sense that prevented harm on any given night. But we were also providing the structure that allowed the neglect to continue undetected and unaddressed for years.

Saying no created the crisis that created the investigation that created the conditions in which Tyler, Emma, and Lucas were finally seen clearly continue reading …