Faces of Ice

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The worst thing is all the kids who end up with what is basically PTSD from living with strung out speed freaks. I'm not even talking about the ones whose mothers did drugs while pregnant, I'm talking about the kids who end up living in cars and tents, whose parents spend days on end screaming at them, who are abused physically and mentally by the people who are supposed to keep them safe. Even when they get into a safe situation these kids spend years trying to overcome the deep seated fears their parents left in their souls. I had a high school student many years ago whose parents had raised him living in a dead van they towed from relative to relative's driveway while they did ice. He said this about them: "You look into their eyes and their souls were dead." This young man will never do drugs, in fact he wants to be a community police officer and work with homeless youth, but he has had to work really hard to get past the "heritage" of poverty and drug abuse his parents gave him, they were too wasted to even make it to his graduation.

Carol