They ask the parents about their own childhoods, about drinking, about current drug use, about watching porn. They ask about certain household routines, try to establish a pattern or back trail from their pasts that might lead to the abuse that’s potentially going on now. Because humans are learning machines. We learn by what’s done to us, not just what we’re taught. We learn to injure and touch and wound what we shouldn’t. We learn to abuse and abandon if we’re hurt and lost. The past imprints on the future like a typewriter slowly running out of ink.
