They didn't spend it on food for them. Or school expenses. Or the usual teen expenses===going to movies with friends, hanging at the mall and having In and Out burgers, with other kids from school, driving lessons, manicures, the pizza parlor, school football games. Having teens is very expensive, which is why mine had part time jobs.---Which helped prepare them for adulthood and future career goals.
And it really makes me sad that these 6 beautiful souls missed out on all of that.
I should not be surprised after seeing the smiling Turpins, but to see these darling kids smiling like they are having fun and knowing two mins later they were back to hell. There was no joy. None.
Not even with the smiles because they knew what life was going to be like in the next minute.
All of those years with those monsters. I wonder how those incessantly long drives were with Jen? No talking. No laughing. No singing. And a banan each. Maybe, if they were good.
Can you imagine the accolades that woman got at those festivals? Mother of the year. Humanitarian par excellance.
Sarah could have run away. She was alone for months at a time. And Jen was in love with another.