A decade in the author's life when she struggled to find a home for herself and her three children. It was the early 1970s and she encountered a great deal of social and financial discrimination. She'd left a marriage where she suffered from emotional battering, and lost her eldest son for over a year. Medical authorities said she should be put away. Child welfare authorities said they knew best how to look after her children. It was an uphill battle but June Allen won out, she abducted her children from the state welfare system.