While I was reading the first section I noticed most about the absent parents. I feel like that will be more and more evident in our children that we teach households. Jobs have taken over lives and outside activities. Parents spend more time trying to make money for the family and trying to support the family than try to support them by being there for them. They believe that children can raise themselves as long as they provide a home and what the child needs to survive. Also she mentions that she believed she was an acident. There will always be those children who were the opps or weren't planned and parents will raise the first ones they planned for but believe they provided a good enough example with the first few that the other one will follow and become perfect.
I felt sorry for Virginia not only because he sister and her best friend are gone but because the only time her parents pay her any attention it's to focus on her weight. While i know that her diet was wrong and what her parents did was wrong or the way the approached it was wrong. I was still wanting to look at it in the way that at least they seemed to care about her health and weight. Maybe just becaus they were opposed about looks but so many people now do not care about health and obeseity it's becoming such a problem that we really need to teach children how to eat and how to excercise. Find a sport or way to get energy out and healthly snacks.