Fear. Anger. Failure. Danica Montana went through a wide range of emotions when Child Family Services removed her children from her. Above all, she couldn’t believe that she had repeated the same cycle she’d grown up in, neglect and abuse that leads to devastation. Vulnerable and eye-opening, this is the rarely heard perspective of a birth mom’s journey as she’s lost and fought to regain her children from foster care.

Read the story of another birth parent who fought for his daughter and the role one selfless family played in reuniting them.