The Glass Castle 2

As I was looking up Jeanette Walls I found a 2007 Colbert Report interview with her about the Glass Castle, it made me realize how unbelievable her story is. It could be complete bs. We wouldn't ever really know though. In the interview she was a very pretty woman with perfect hair, make-up and clothing with an annoying habit of calling Colbert "honey." As she attempted to explain her story and life she came off as a maybe. I had a difficult time telling if it was all scripted or what. I mean the whole story is unbelievable right? Who could have survived that and turned out successful? Not many. She really ought to have died of neglect at age 4 when her body was covered in 2nd and 3rd degree burns due to her being left alone to cook hotdogs at age 4. That's barely out of toddler stage right? It doesn't make sense. There were no visible scars or anything. That woman looked like a beautiful suburban mother with 2 kids that go to Dunwoody high. Not a woman that lived through abuse for 16 years.
That's another thing that I don't understand how did they escaped the system for so long? How is it that child protection services never found them? True they lived in many different places for short amounts of time but twice a socail worker came asking around but never filed anything or tried to ask the right questions. This here is a classic case of a failing system. Each year many children are neglected and abused because somewhere there's a person who should care but isn't. What can we do nothing really? Just yesterday a bill attempted to go through the Georgia state senate that would allow hospital workers and people other than primary care givers the ability to report injured and abused children in prostitution rings. I think it passed with only one person voting no. That's a start.