Alice's extremely unhealthy lifestyle is only one reason why she shouldn't be keeping her children away from their other parent and their grandparents. Her own mother died young, and Alice's lifestyle must increase her risk factors for things like heart disease and diabetes. Her brother has kidney disease, you'd think that she would try to mitigate her chances of illness when you consider that if she dies, there is no-one to look after her daughters. Gloria isn't going to want two grieving teenagers in her home permanently, they've been kept away from all of their remaining grandparents and other relatives, their Brizzle uncle is seriously ill, and they're apparently "terrified" of Ioan, and especially Bianca, who will probably kill them (
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Where would they go if anything happened to Alice? What if she got run down by a car? Or had a non-fatal heart attack, which kept her in hospital for several weeks? She's just such a selfish moron, she doesn't care about them at all.