While flipping through the channels on the television this morning in search of something to have on in the background while I read the news online and cleaned up the downstairs, I happened upon a show that I had never seen before. Like so many other daytime shows, it was a talk show, and my jaw hit the floor when I realized that the host of the show, was the head security guy, from the trashiest of daytime talk shows...Jerry Springer.

Curiosity took over, and I put the remote down, ready to see what sort of hard hitting topic Steve Wilkos was going to touch upon, or if his show too, was going to be a parade of, let's face it freaks, like that of old Mr. Springer's show, and just to clarify, no I am not a fan of Jerry's show, nor do I watch it. As a teenager I had viewed the show a few times amazed that a former mayor would choose his legacy to be such a trashy show.

To my surprise however, this show was not a parade of weird people, in even weirder situations, but three children, sisters, who were seeking help in getting their mother off of drugs so that they could have her back in their lives. They told of watching her overdose and having to call an ambulance, while seeing her convulse on the floor believing that they were going to watch her die. Another sister told of how their mother had piled them all into the car and attempted to kill all of them by putting a hose from the tailpipe of the car to a cracked window.

The third daughter spoke of being passed through a window of houses at 3 and 4 years old so that the child could unlock the front door of the house, letting the mother in, so that she could steal whatever she could in order to sell the items for drugs. It was absolutely heartbreaking to watch these poor young ladies speak of these horrific events that unfolded throughout their entire childhood, until they were taken in by their grandmother, and then their father.

Two of the children were interested in having their mother back in their lives, as long as she got herself clean and stayed that way, the third daughter, however had no interest in having a relationship with her mother any longer. She had too many bad memories of her mother, and had no interest in allowing her mother any more chances for creating bad memories. The girls were then removed from the stage so that the mother could come out and tell her side of the story.

I, along with the in studio audience, moaned out loud once she began trying to justify her actions, and pull the American politician standard answer of "I don't recall that happening" when it came to some of the stories that the children had told, living in denial in typical addict fashion.

The father of the girls was also on the show, and was brought out last, as the hero of the situation. After finding out that the mother was using drugs, and putting the children in such dangerous situations, the father fought in court to gain full legal custody of his children, and despite everything that they had suffered through in their early childhood, he still somehow managed to raise three healthy, strong, loving, smart children.

The mother was offered counseling and drug treatment, paid for by the show to help her get and stay clean in order to have a relationship with her children, yet the outlook looks doubtful since she admitted, after the host offered to read the results of the drug test that they had given her, that she had lied and was in fact still using drugs, and had done so just days before appearing on the show knowing her daughter's conditions on letting her back into their lives. What makes so many people in this world believe that they have the right to bring children into this world only to abuse, neglect, and abandon them is beyond me.



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