“This is her first published article.”
And hopefully her last.
First things I thought....where’s the father? Was she married to him? Did she marry a loser? Why didn’t she get out of food service, seeing as the pay is too low? Did she have children knowing she couldn’t afford them?
Demanding a living wage for doing a job that requires very little skill is not realistic. Wouldn’t it be easier to change your vocation rather than pressure the government to shakedown your employers?
Excellent questions but they're based on the increasingly wild assumption that she has any idea who the father is (fathers are) from which to collect support.
It's just much easier to go on the dole than to go to all the trouble of (1)-identifying the possible father(s), (2)-proving if he is (they are) in fact the father(s), and (3)-getting him (them) to pay support.