The Right Thing

It's a miracle it doesn't happen more often.

The question I hear most often is: 'Why?'

Why did no one get her help? Why did no one protect those children? Why did they keep having child after child after child when there was an obvious problem?

There is still a stigma with mental illness. Ministers tell their parishioners that if their faith was stronger, they would be better. God would fix them. People are told they're being invaded by Satan. That they should buck up, grow up, act right, what will the neighbors think.

Unless we get past those attitudes, it's going to happen again.