In The Glass Castle, after Jeanette's family returned to visit her, they “noticed that Brian's head was wrapped in a dirty white bandage with dried blood stains on it. Mom said he fell off the back of the couch and cracked his head on the floor, but she and Dad decided not to take him to the hospital. (13) This is a great example of parents not caring for their children and not depending on healthcare to secure their children's future. Parents work harder and harder as they continue to succeed and “climb the ladder.” Less and less attention is paid to children by their direct relatives because care depends on third parties and is rarely as individual as parenting is. The future of our country depends on today's children, and we should not stand by and watch them be educated as non-contributing members of society. Another example from The Glass Castle of parental negligence is when Jeanette fell out of the car and no one noticed. “I fell out of the car. I rolled several feet down the embankment and when I stopped, too shocked to cry, with my breath knocked out and sand and pebbles in my eyes and mouth, I raised my head in time to watch the Green Caboose get smaller and smaller and then disappears around a bend. Blood trickled down my forehead and out of my nose. (30) It took her father more than an hour to realize that she had even disappeared. This is horrible and shows that the parents definitely didn't care for their children, as in the case of Jeanette and her mother eating ham that couldn't be stored in the refrigerator since they didn't have one. “The mother was sitting on the sofa bed and eating the piece she had cut. “Mom, the ham is full of worms,” I said. “Don't be so picky,” he told me. «Just cut away the parts full of worms. The inside is fine." (172) Because they didn't have electricity and couldn't