Decline of Rex and Rose Mary's New Job

At this point Rex has lost his job and he has begun disappearing a lot also. The children begin to fend for themselves even it meant stealing. The children even resort to eating butter because they are so hungry. When Rex gets home one night he and Rose Mary begin arguing over the money issue and the argument escalates to painting being thrown out the window. Somehow Rose Mary ends up dangling from the second floor and Rex tries to pull her in. Rose Mary accuses him of trying to her kill her and he says that she jumped. The children are not affected by the fight because to them it’s normal by now. Rose Mary finds a teaching job and is said to be a bad teacher for not being able to control her classroom. When the principal threatens to fire her, Lori and Jeanette begin helping her grade papers and create lesson plans. The children believed that because their mom had a job they would have food and be able to buy new clothes. Although not to their suprise Rex had been escorting Mary Rose to the bank to cash her check and then using the money for himself.