Case Study: Alcoholic parents

Case Study: Alcoholic parents

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09:35My parents were alcoholics. There was abuse, never had a… stable family home at all. None.

09:45I will tell she remains sitting in the chair, belt tie… or tied to the chair,belted around for no reason at all.

09:50And if she peed in the chair, she’d get for it to get even twice as now.

10:00SUSAN PURCELL Every night, when I’d go to bed, my foster father molested me.

10:05Did you ever say anything to anybody?

10:10SUSAN PURCELL I told the social worker and they didn’t believe me.They didn’t do nothing.

10:20[sil.]

10:25C. DAVID JOHNSON After an 18-month battle, Susan won a partial victory, the right to take her daughter home, but only under the close supervision of child welfare workers.

10:35SUSAN PURCELL Put this color on, put this color. Too high.

10:40[sil.]

10:45Put the other one.

SUSAN PURCELL Yeah, the other one.

10:50C. DAVID JOHNSON The social workers continued to have concerns. They said she had trouble measuring out the right amount of medicine. She took too long to dress and feed her daughter, and showed a high level of anxiety, which affected her ability to solve problems. Her lawyerfelt Susan was being held to a different standard than any other parent.

11:15DOLORES CRANE My client was under a microscope, and every time the director’s workers who would asked her questions, she was always petrified of saying the wrong answer and the more that she didn’t get the right answer the more nervous she became in terms of doing the chores and so on.

11:35C. DAVID JOHNSON Susan’s sisters offered to share the child raising duties, an arrangement that has helped ease the burden on mentally disabled parents in the past. When child welfare declined their offer, the sisters were dismayed by the decision.

11:50They set her up to take a fall. It’s almost like that.

I think they actually went after her and they made her feel stupid.

11:55They put her in situations to make sure she fails them.

12:00Yes, she is not stupid.

They gave her a test, a math test…

Yeah.

…which she passed the 100%, but they had to test her math skills, like she… that… that… I… I had never heard of someone being tested for math to become a parent, because I don’t know if I do too good.

12:15And that’s why she is taking courses now to better herself…

Yeah, she has been taken…

12:20She has been, yeah. So what does that tell them? They should tell them like, “hey she is trying.”