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MEMBER BLOG TAG: child welfare

Saturday, January 17, 2009 4:37PM
 
From an drunk's daughter...
Tags: alcoholism, child welfare, judge
 
Looks attractive at first glance, yes?

Earlier this week, a man called me from another city, a friend of my father's. I'll call him Joe. Joe has thirty days sober -- made it through the holidays -- but was having a bad day, full of anxiety, and was afraid he was going to drink again. He couldn't find my father, who has been helping him, and felt too nervous, he said, to call some of the other people who might...
 
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