“In this one, Stripes was living with a nasty adoptive mother who threw him out on the street saying: ‘Get away you naughty cub, you can’t come back here.’ Luckily, all was not lost because Stripes found his birth mummy.
“I took a deep breath and asked Zahina whether she thought she might be thrown out on the street like Stripes.
“She said yes and though I tried to reassure her that this would never be the case, it hit me really hard. I rang the social worker for advice but she told me not to worry, saying it was great Zahina was expressing herself.”
This little girl sized this single “mother” up well.
There was no love there ... and the little girl KNEW this. Being an ornament wasn’t enough.
“She said yes and though I tried to reassure her that this would never be the case,
Then she turned her back in.
What a filthy bitch this woman was, she told the kid she would never throw her out, then threw her out. I read very little in the story to convince me this child was so disturbed or so unreachable or so a threat to the other child. It was all nonsense, like “I could tell she was glad my daughter was upset”. Duh, real siblings often want to kill each other.
Bingo. I've learned that kids have incredibly sensitive BS meters. They may not always be able to put it in words (though Zahina seems to have done so), but they know.
And a little girl who's been through as much as this one has ... she's probably got a far more adult worldview than do either the author of this dreck, or the woman who couldn't be bothered to understand....