i donât really think you got the point of the edit if you think this is all about her getting guardianship. i get thats what she had to do, i get it was the only good option, but that doesnt excuse what she did afterwords. ian was illegally enlisted in the army, went awol, became a teenage prostitute and was in serious danger and she was all nonchalant about it saying âheâll be back when heâs backâ. liam overdosed at three because fiona wasnât watching him with drugs in the house, and youâd think that growing up with addict parents and being around your siblings when they were toddlers (who are known for putting everything in their mouths, toddlers are crazy) would teach her to not do that. youâd think she would take some responsibility, but instead she defends herself and says she isnât guilty when she clearly is. debbie got pregnant as a teenager and i know this is a sore spot (but this is the real point of the edit), but fiona shouldnât have made her homeless. idc. a tough love approach would be fine, but at the end of the day, itâs her body and her decision and she did give birth. as her guardian, fiona shouldâve still given her a place to live. she almost never held franny, she never raised franny, and i think establishing that boundary with debbie would be fine but there were better ways to do it than tackling her to the ground while debbie screams (6x02) and then eventually making her and her newborn homeless. when i bring up how fiona was warned its not because i think shes stupid or shouldnt have become guardian, itâs because i think what the judge was saying foreshadowed her future decisons. and in s7 when she tries to rebrand herself as an independent woman if it wasnt for the emergency contact list and billing her siblings. i donât care and i donât wanna hear an argument, debbie and carl were children and they shouldâve been treated as such. it doesnât matter if they were âacting as adultsâ, they werenât. she signed up to take care of them until they were 18. once the baby was out and debbie was trying to change herself and improve her life she didnât deserve that treatment, and pretty much nobody in the show was on fionaâs side. lip, ian, kev, and v shouldnât have been higher on the emergency contact list than fiona because this is fionaâs job. it doesnât matter if you think she deserved a life of her own because while i do think everybody deserves that, she still has responsibilities and that was child neglect. kev and v also have kids of their own and a business, the gallagher kids arenât their responsibility. i get your argument but i donât see the point in becoming guardian when the second she became guardian she started pretending she had no role in the kids life. what was the point if she was just gonna abandon them anyways? i get not wanting them to end up in foster care but i feel like thatâs better than on the streets. thatâs not even just about debbie because in s11 liam doesnât know who his guardian is and has to pick out spots on the street to sleep, and while he had his other siblings he shouldâve had fiona with him, his ACTUAL guardian. hate me for this take if you want to but iâll defend the kids over fiona until the day i die, sorry.