I admit I am having a hard time understanding the circumstances that led to a seriously depressed, suicidal woman homeschooling her children. I am also confused as to how an eight year old retarded child who had once been put up for adoption by her mother ends up locked in a closet for four years...another horror story. Poor little thing had a family ready to adopt her as an infant and they are still ready to take her in. But imagine the damage done. I don't understand.