The True Story Here

I do find it more than a little strange that Karen Cooper's children, as said in another post, have no contact with their aunt and uncle, into whose care they were given after forcibly being removed from the Micks' care (the "Peppers", in the movie), and they have no contact any more with the Micks, either! Is this ungrateful or what?? Yeah, forcing them away from the foster parents (yes, they did make some mistakes, granted, but the kids were happy, from what I've read) did a world of good---one child committed suicide in her teens and who knows what other mental harm was done to any of the others. Why they'd cut off communications with the foster parents and then, subsequently, the aunt and uncle, is beyond me. Of course, I don't know the "facts", but evidently, the highly-disturbed mother still has their attention. I guess a mother's a mother---even if she does stink at it! Just my opinion.......

I had various opinions that were similar and different to what I read on here. I felt sorrow for Callie due to her illness and toward the end with the medication helping her it truly seemed she really did love her children but just was not a good caregiver to them. I felt the aunt and uncle did have the best intersts of the children and had it not been for Callies objections they would have been placed with them from the start. Some people on here comment about the Micks and in the movie I did see some of that where the kids were emotinally and mentally affected by the treatment of Patty which alienated them more and more agains their real mother which was unfair. The oldest one was hurt a lot however she didnt seem to understand that her mother had an illness that contributed greatly to that. She did at the end come to I think understand to a degree for she did wish her luck.

After seeing the movie tonight for the first time and not really seeing much of the beginning I am so curious about these 3 fathers. Were they at the beginning of the movie. I only looked up when I saw her with the last one who I think was the father of the baby boy for he was the one the Oldest told she would kill him if he hit her sister or any of them again and that is when he up and left with Callie chasing him saying doenst he love the baby.

Were all the fathers just low lifes. She really attracted the wrong kind of men. I didnt see anything mentioned about the fathers in the proceedings of placing these children yet it mentions in this article something about them needing to be contacted.

THis leads me to wonder if these fathers just were such low lifes they didnt care about their own biological children to want to know them and I wonder if now since the children have grown up if they have had any contact with these 3 fathers or known them in any way. I have not seen this mentioned ont he board.