Some things pop up in the mind when you are thinking about something else

Several times during high school, our daughter said, “Mom, Dad. (Girl's name)is having trouble at home and I wondered if she could stay with us for a while?” Our first question was: “Do her parents know about this?” Oftentimes, the answer was: “Her mother kicked her out.” Not one time did an answer indicate there were a father and a mother in the home, although one girl was kicked out by her mother and told to go live with her father, and the father after a month then told the girl to leave his apartment. Kicked out by both parents is an indication of a few things not right.

The life of one girl, who stayed with us only a few times, now and then, was especially rememberable because: A 25-year-old man asked the 15-year-old girl’s 33-year-old mother if he could date Kimberly. The mother responded with an emphatic “No,” telling the hopeful suitor he was too old for her daughter. The man then asked if the mother would go out with him. She said, “Yes.” The mother and the man were married a couple of months later. The girl in time had three children, by two different men, one named Rooster, and whose child she had not long after he entered the state prison system.

Kimberly dropped out of school, not surprisingly. Later, though, she got a GED and a real job and has not birthed more children.