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Did the exterminator come already to exterminate the bugs?

Then the exterminator may have not done a good job the first time.

Sorry but with the right techniques usually nothing needs to be thrown out. Heat is always an option — more costly but less work.

And retreament is always necessary as they are hardy creatures — usually a few weeks apart — even when successful to ensure complete eradication of the next cycle.

Ohel has a crisis intervention team that can help this family. Give them a call.

I thought this thread was about bedbugs. Now it’s about changing topics?

🙂

Sometimes when I hear about someone’s childhood where there was abuse, I wonder what his/her experiences would be like, had someone intervened.

Without CPS, there can be severe trauma and the child doesn’t know that it isn’t normal.

With CPS, there is also severe trauma and the child has nonfamily coming in and making huge changes, and telling the child that abuse is wrong.

The priority goes to parents raising their children, so long as they become better parents and work with CPS.

In retrospect, I wonder if there is research on adults who were abused as children without intervention vs those whose parents had CPS step in.

Sometimes parents abuse their adult children. Would that have stopped or been mitigated if CPS came in, early on, provoking changes in the parents’ behavioral patterns?