Girl Bomb

I think this story is very powerful and full of events.  I don't see her not having anyother family members than just her mom and her dad who is not there.  What about a grandparent or close friend of her mother's.  I don't see why her mom can't let Dave go.  She tries to say to the councelor at the second shelter that Janice is the one with the problem and she is not.  I think the mom really is the one with the problem because she lets Dave take over her life and try to tell her what to do and then has a baby with her.  He always tries to find a way back into Barb's life and even though he knows he is ruining her relationship with Janice he does not care because he is the one who wants to be in her life instead of her daughter and so does Barb it seems like.  She wants Dave more then her own daughter.  She is letting Janice go around and smoke pot and such things and not paying much attention to her and I think if Dave was not in the picture then Janice would never have gotten into any of these problems.