penink-13398 Review of God Bless the Child

God Bless the Child (1988 TV Movie)

Saw it years ago and never forgot it

[10/10 · 25 June 2018]

I'm glad to see that so many people were affected by and appreciated this complex film. In it, a single mom and her daughter are abandoned by their father. The only affordable apartments on their income have problems, such as worsening her daughter's asthma problems. The mom encounters several catch-22's in trying to get help. I saw this on TV before the Bush v. Clinton election of 1992 and used it to argue why we need more social programs and how charity doesn't always get to the people who need it. This is a woman trying to do the best for her daughter, get a job, have a place to keep them from being homeless, and one thing after another goes wrong. If this is based on any true stories, I hope their endings were happy. These days, social workers do EVERYTHING in their power to keep families together so hopefully even if this happened a while ago, families have since been reunited (very likely) and moms and kids aren't separated unless absolutely necessary.