In addition, Jaundoo’s parents have long struggled with drugs and alcohol. And she says her older brothers still do.
“They’ve spent pretty much all their life being incarcerated,” Jaundoo says of her brothers. “It was a very long time before either one of them were at home at the same time.”
And so her story raises a question: How can a child with the deck stacked against her get out and get ahead?
In her case, it did happen.
“When I had my son, I knew right off the bat I wanted things to be different for him,” she says.