In the US, IQ scores are often a key factor in gauging parenting ability. Critics say the assessments are misguided and unfair \u2013 and the results can be devastating<\/p>\n
Amethyst Gibson brought her son home from St Charles hospital in Bend, Oregon, five days shy of Christmas.<\/p>\n
It was 2022 and Gibson, who goes by Abbi, was renting a room from Tina Berlin-Dungan, who owned a one-story house in a nearby town and charged her $400 a month. The two women had equipped the home with everything the baby, Dean, would need: a Pack \u2019n Play crib and changing station, clothes, bottles, a baby bath, baby gate, and ointments for rashes.<\/p>\n
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