They don't teach you how to deal with substance abuse in seminary, and I challenge you to find one congregation, or one family for that matter, that doesn't have an addict.

Maybe you don't get the fulfillment you expected from your career. At some point the question pops up: Is this all there is?

This is not a bunch of rich people that just had money to burn.

Any child death that is possibly the result of abuse or neglect is referred to DYFS for a separate investigation,

The fact of the matter is, if you haven’t been in an abusive relationship, you don’t really know what the experience is like. Furthermore, it’s quite hard to predict what you would do in the same situation. I find that the people most vocal about what they would’ve done in the same situation often have no clue what they are talking about – they have never been in the same situation themselves.
By invalidating the survivor’s experience, these people are defending an image of themselves that they identify with strength, not realizing that abuse survivors are often the strongest individuals out there. They’ve been belittled, criticized, demeaned, devalued, and yet they’ve still survived. The judgmental ones often have little to no life experience regarding these situations, yet they feel quite comfortable silencing the voices of people who’ve actually been there.

Who said 'please' that made you hate the word so much?"
Andrew gazed at him in silence for a minute. "I did.