[sauropod]

Without knowing more about her situation, such as her financial situation and that of her grandparents, and the reasons that went into her signing up, I don't think you can make such a sweeping statement such as "a mother's first responsibility should be to her minor children."

Maybe her signing up to get the pay and health benefits for her family IS fulfilling her "first responsibility. It just so happens that her job calls for deployment every so often.

I'd rather she be serving her country instead of a ward of the state, wouldn't you?

[MikefromOhio]

Without knowing more about her situation, such as her financial situation and that of her grandparents, and the reasons that went into her signing up, I don't think you can make such a sweeping statement such as "a mother's first responsibility should be to her minor children."

Come on now. We all know that the internet in general and FR in this particular case is EXACTLY the place to post without thinking about what you are posting and making broad sweeping statements by a poster with his/her head up her arse from behind their know it all keyboard.

[Antoninus]

Maybe her signing up to get the pay and health benefits for her family IS fulfilling her "first responsibility. It just so happens that her job calls for deployment every so often. I'd rather she be serving her country instead of a ward of the state, wouldn't you?

I would if I were living in the land of "False Dichotomy." Are you telling me that in this most prosperous nation in the world, no other choice for a woman in her straights than the military or welfare? You must not know very many single mothers.