Family

"I was 32 when my mother died. The difficulties in our relationship her anger with me and my judgments of her had not been resolved."
"I never thought my own mother would end up overnighting on a bus bench in her late 60s. But in other ways, it was not a complete surprise."
Advocates and state lawmakers say that Rachel Pickrel-Hawkins fight to keep her children away from their allegedly abusive father highlights a bigger issue within family courts.