By Alison Graham, Image: Heather Rousseau, The Roanoke Times, The Publication, July 10, 2022
Julia Jones spiraled when social services took her four children away.
Her husband had just left her, both of her parents were dead and she felt like she had no one to ask for help. The social workers told her to take parenting classes and go to therapy, and she did. But to her, it seemed like the harder she tried to get her kids back, the farther away they got.
So instead, she kept doing what she had done for years: drinking, doing drugs, and getting in and out of abusive relationships.
“Everything was so out of control that I just didn’t do anything about it,” she said. “I was like, oh well. I didn’t really know how to feel. I let it happen.”
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