The Phone Call at 2 A.M.

When the phone rang at 2:14 on a Tuesday morning, Rachel Dominguez was grading seventh-grade essays at her kitchen table in Tulsa. The voice on the other end belonged to a DHS caseworker. Three siblings — ages two, four, and six — needed emergency placement tonight. Their mother had been hospitalized. There was no family available. Rachel was twenty-six, single, living in a one-bedroom apartment.…