By the grace of god.

There are moments when you are forced into seeing the world in a new different way and often it can come through the chance hearing of a radio program that brings to the microphone an experience of someone who has grown up in very different circumstances from ones own. 
Our prejudice is built in the emotional hot house of our environment when growing up and we are fixed, as in aspic to a set of values that form as we learn from our parents knee. The issue that was being discussed was whether it was right to take children away from parents who couldn't cope and don't care.
The adults who came on air were either from the hang em and flog em brigade or were people who had grown up in an unloving environment and had, on having their own children found it hard to offer their own children love and care. The articulate deeply sincere explanation of how they were unable to comprehend the needs of their children, would as time passed, slowly begin to understand their shortcomings was really moving.
We have our opinions, we base our thoughts and comments on our own experience and find it incomprehensible to see how these parents could ignore their children in virtually every way. Like any disorder, be it physical or mental we find it extremely difficult to put ourself in their position since it is so far from what we would call our own "normal"experience but remember "we" have been blessed with the security that allowed us to project our love onto our children.   

But for the grace of God !!!