I got an email this week from a frantic friend. She had gotten a phone call from an investigator for the county Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) informing her that she and her husband are under investigation and they needed to meet with him.

She is the mother of two children; one diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder and OCD, the other neurotypical. Understandably, she is a nervous wreck. The investigator didn’t say why he was calling or what or who was being investigated. She didn’t know whether to call an attorney or not. She wrote me asking for some advice and some comfort, which I gave, but I punctuated it with a phrase I know she didn’t want to hear, but had to. Get used to it.

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