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After a Slip, Parents Find Renewed Focus
"Hey, honey. Did you miss me?" Keith Cromwell asks daughter Keyona during a visit in March. After using drugs again in February, Cromwell said, "All my nevers came through."
(By Michael Williamson -- The Washington Post)
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"Is this about you?"
"This is about us," Cromwell says. "I didn't have a child by myself."
"Is this about you or Stacy or Keyona?"
"It's about all of us."
"I'd like to think it's more about you and Keyona."
Cromwell refuses to concede the point. "A child deserves a mother and a father."
"Are you going to deprive Keyona of both?" the judge asks. "You have to step up to the plate, because Stacy has not."
Late in the hearing, Coleman arrives. She is wild-eyed, her face appearing heavy and swollen. She nervously picks at a sore on her lip.
"Come on up," the judge says, rising from the bench. "What made you come today?"
"I'm ready to go to treatment," she blurts out.
The judge reacts cautiously.
"You guys have got to figure this out," Welch says. "You may be poison for each other. It's not about just losing your child. It's about losing your life."
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