Three little boys, all younger than 4, thought their house had been robbed.
Their mother, Rose Etuka, knew better. She’d taken the boys to church while her now-ex–husband moved out.
“I didn’t prepare myself for what he was going to take,” she said. “We walked into a house that was gutted. The impact on (my boys) was devastating.”
Right then, Rose vowed to keep her children’s lives stable — as stable as she could for three kids with a single parent. She started that night by ordering pizza. She didn’t know that the separation set off a chain reaction, that things wouldn’t be normal for a long time.