What was so frusterateing for me was pleading with social services in three states to get custody of my second neice and nephew who were being dragged around while their mother openly worked for an "escort service". I was told that as long as she was not having the children in the room she was performing lewd sex acts in it was not grounds to declare her an unfit mother. It was only when it was documented that the kids had missed so much medical care and school they were considered endangered and truant that they ended up in foster care. That her pimp professed to home school the kids and the family provided the kids clothes, shoes, food, and toys she was able to beat the system for years. It was heart wrenching to have her bring them to me to beef them back up, catch them up in school for a few months then drag them back out the door.