The reason I ask whose pictures is because of my situation with my best friend's grandbaby. I'm going to pick her up in about an hour, as a matter of fact. She was born 3 months early. She's my absolute heart. I took care of her for the first year practically on my own. Her mother was there, but she had little to do with her and did some neglectful things when the baby was in her care. I moved away from the city they live in, but I get the baby about once per month for a weekend or a week, like now. Every time I get the baby she has little clothes in her diaper bag (plastic grocery bag), and once she didn't have shoes on or in the bag. I always buy her clothes and shoes. She rarely brings enough diapers, so I buy those too. I have a ton of pictures of her from the weekends she is with me. She always looks happy and she's always wearing something new I bought her. She has everything a little girl her age (18 months), could want or need - and I've bought most of it. Her mother rarely takes pictures of the baby - most on her facebook are of the mother or their dogs. The last time I picked the baby up she was filthy and had a bad rash on her face and diaper area. There was medicine for it in the bag, but it had never been opened - the prescription, according to the label, had been purchased 3 weeks earlier. CPS (called by the father's mother), has visited the mother but they never find a reason to report neglect. Diaper rashes happen and babies get dirty. No big deal.
If one looked at all the pictures I have, one would think this was a happy and well cared for baby as well...so I don't lend much credence to pictures. Not saying she wasn't, or that the pictures weren't taken by DB - I just know this means little in the big picture. Then there's the happy pictures of little Caylee - and she was found triple bagged in a swamp.