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Drawing on Das\u2019s (Slum acts. Polity Press, Cambridge, 2022) discussion of \u2018inordinate knowledge\u2019, or knowledge of real-life and morally dubious scenarios that resist attempts at resolution through philosophical reasoning, the paper explores how women in these situations grappled with the realisation of having neglected their children. I demonstrate my interlocutors\u2019 ongoing ethical self-evaluations and continued attempts to make amends for their earlier caregiving lapses, with the limited resources at their disposal. In so doing, I demonstrate how my interlocutors\u2019 yearning towards their children, as revealed through the process of reflexive caregiving action, became entwined with their trajectories through homelessness and addiction in Dublin. At the same time, I probe the limits of anthropologists\u2019 proclivity for contextualising and rationalising unsettling caregiving behaviours. 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