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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When  I was a kid in the 1970s,  my friend's parents divorced. That easn t unusual, but in my friend's case, her parents had married young, and her dad was kind of a deadbeat. My friend's mother hadn't been to college, but she had two kids to support, so she started a daycare in her home. They lived pretty close to the edge, gonancially.

One day, I went over after school, and there were a ton of extra kids there. My friend's mother had allowed a friend with four boys to stay with them for a while, as this friend had left her husband. This other woman seemed very helpless, and only wore plain white men's t-shirts, the kind you get in packs of 3 at the store.. My friend was pretty annoyed with her mother. They didn't have so much extra space, food, and money  that they could just shoehorn five extra people into their house. It was only later, as an adult, that I realized that this houseguest and her kids had probably fled domestic abuse with whatever they could carry. My friend's mom just quiietly did the right thing, and took them in.[/quote]

If this was posted in the childcare part of DCUM, people would be up in arms because of the non-background-checked adult and all the other kids at the daycare. [/quote]

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