evidence: After struggling to get treatment for her mentally ill son, a mother’s act of desperation: Giving up custody [...] To get him into a full-time residential treatment program and find a way to pay for it, she was willing to give up her parental rights. She would hand her son over to social services and open herself to charges of being a negligent parent. It was an act of desperation for Lisa — one that’s made by thousands of families across the country every year in the face of inadequate, inaccessible mental health care. [...] Lisa said she took on thousands in personal loans to pay for his treatment. She begged for help from New Mexico lawmakers. She told her story to the local newspaper, hoping to publicly shame the insurance company into providing her son the care he needed.