Just a thought, but an important one. It would appear that the mother of this child is fairly low income and probably not very highly-educated, however, it is also important to remind parents of any income or educational level that there is such a things as over-parenting. That can be just as harmful as under-parenting and neglect.
When you say over parenting -- what do you mean? I'm genuinely interested.
You make a very important point.