Darla's parents are divorced, which she very much resents, but she has a comfortable bedroom and a mother who reads to her at bedtime. Although her feelings for her father's new wife are vague, she still loves her father, and, as she notes, she still likes him. The twin sons he and his new wife have had can be vexing, but she concedes that they are adorable so long as she does not have to live with them. The other girls in Neverland have not been so fortunate.

They have been abandoned, beaten, and otherwise abused by their parents or guardians, and they have been transported (how is not explained) to Neverland because of their desire to escape their awful lives. That Darla is also transported to Neverland seems odd because she is not truly miserable, but she has gone to sleep while thinking unhappy, discontented thoughts about...