The Family Meeting

Better days will come for sure...but not likely in the immediate future.  Appreciate your hugs!!!  

it reads as too sad and too personal
for me to comment, except to say
that it's written so well...

That's enough said, dear Paul.  Muah!

Even if you did understand it might not do much good.  If you criticized he might just tell you to mind your own business, might deny you any further contact.  This is heartbreaking, but it's up to him.  Maybe he'll grow out of it and put away his toy.  He's more the baby in this scenario, seems to me.  Very sad but very fine write Virginia.

Crow, thank you for your insightful thoughts.  It's a very difficult situation and fraught with heartbreak, just as you say.  

Perfect observation.

Much appreciated, Ahavati. Perfect comment!

a lot of discomfort in that room. can only hope the child survives the unpleasantness...

The child will survive....just under different circumstances.  

This is so sad. Poor little child, rejected from the start for whatever circumstances...as if they can be anything but what they are while the strange scary world around them chooses a life for them, or denies them. Wish more people thought about the child in situations like this.
Fantastically written dear Virginia. I felt this one. Sorry about the soapbox...this kind of thing hits me hard sometimes.

There is safety in oblivion sometimes.

How unfortunate that sounds. You seem to have painted the relationship between the mom (?) and child succinctly. The distance is tangible in your words. And then to end in utter restraint.