[BenLurkin]

Subimtted for your analysis and commentary.

I'm not sure where to start.

[Pukin Dog]

"Even though my mom was young, she was very, very wise"

Someone shoot these idiots before they can vote.

[Alberta's Child]

These are the kinds of people we used to send missionaries to visit. My tagline sounds more prophetic by the day.

[SarahW]

May god bless her children.

[writer33]

"Every time she got knocked down, she would just dust herself off and get back up," said Annette Banks, a close friend. "She was the heart of her family and the strength of her friends. I don't know how she did it."

Isn't this what you're supposed to do? I don't find this unusual. Apparently, the journalist and this woman does.

[fml]

"Every time she got knocked down, she would just dust herself off and get back up,"

Knocked down?!?

[camle]

sounds like she sure knows how to pick her men...

but that's "society"'s fault, t'aint it?

[Husker24]

Her life was filled with struggles, some of them her own doing,

Some?, looks like pretty much the whole damn thing was her doing.

[pabianice]

The 30-year-old mother of six

Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!

[Ronaldus Magnus Reagan]

"Even though my mom was young, she was very, very wise," Kat said. "My mom raised me so well, I think I'm stronger. We can't stop life; we have to continue for our mom."

Wise? Hah! She had her first kid at 12, then had 4 more in the next 10 years. Never saved any money (for funeral expenses). Her oldest daughter is a high school drop-out, and the daughter said she was raised well. Unbelievable. The mom can't spot a loser boyfriend at any distance. This mom is a comedy of errors, and we, the responsible citizens, have to subsidize her bad behavior and decision making.

[squarebarb]

Pregnant at 12 and six children by the time she was 22, and the reporter thinks this is a sob story.

"She was very, very wise..."

Maybe she wasn't tall enough to reach the birth control pills on the top shelf.

We're supposed to have all kinds of sympathy for this woman. These people lived like animals. They bred like animals and killed one another like animals.

No sob story here.

[Little Ray]

Life is hard, but its harder if your are stupid.

[rabidralph]

In the end, it may have been the pain that killed her.

I'm confused. I read this whole story, waiting for the reporter to get to the pain part. I was expecting the story to tell about some nerve damage, a back problem or some other physical problem that made this woman rely on pain medication or something. The pain in her life was self-inflicted and I'm sorry she put herself and six kids through it.

[TXBSAFH]

May God have mercy on her and her Children. Amen.

[cupcakes]

She couldn't wait to have grandchildren so she could spoil them, Banks said. ))0

My hubby has siblings like this and those siblings have their handful with their single parenting children. One of his sister's daughters is expecting her first baby anyday at 16...sigh

Her life was filled with struggles, some of them her own doing, loved ones acknowledge, and sometimes she turned to drugs when the pain overwhelmed her. >>

All of them were her own doing save for the lousy mother who didn't tend to her and let her out to get pregnant at 12 and then rejected her encouraging her to start the cycle anew.

"But we loved her for who she was," Banks said. >>

I'm sure her family and friends did. Doesn't change the fact that her life ended so soon as a result of one mistake after another.

As a single, struggling mother, Banks said, her friend longed for love and acceptance. She chose the wrong man in Matheu, and that proved to be her downfall, she said. >>

sounds like looking for love and acceptance was a downfall her entire life. Why don't poor creatures like this ever pull themselves up by the bootstraps and say they won't accept this anymore and realize they are really looking for a parent and not a boyfriend and get the help they need before they are a 22 year old mother of 6 and dead at 30? I had crappy parents too and behaved badly for a while. Before long, I just had enough of it and refused to look for THEIR love and acceptance in other people. It hurt, but I realized I had to look for a good spouse, not my mother or father and I had to realize that I was never going to get that and could only make it better for my own children when I had them.

I do feel sorry for this gal in a way. She didn' thave a chance being pregnant at 12 and rejected by I'm guessing her single parent mother, but geez, you think you get to a point where you say enough is enough.

[Core_Conservative]

"Boyfriends" sound like great cases for retroactive abortion!

[Monterrosa-24]

Once again, we see that while our well-educated and law-abiding young women marry and have two children, our unmarried young women and recent immigrants are having a great number of children. When I lived in El Salvador, I dated a bank employee who was in her mid-twenties and childless but her ironing maid who came in twice-a-week to iron had six children. My banker pal berated her maid who was unmarried and pregnant again over why she kept having so many children and the maid responded with a shrugg as if there were no other options (government-subsidized birth control pills cost three Colones per month at that time or about fifty cents U.S.). In El Salvador and in the U.S. there is a crises of the middle class under reproducing and the lower class over reproducing. There are lots of people in the world but there is always a shortage of good people. The oceans of others may swamp us especially if we don't get a hold on immigration. I love Salvadorans but we don't always get the best of them as immigrants and we can achieve a low population growth simply by curtailing immigration.

[verity]

IMHO, not every life is precious!

[PMCarey]

"Every time she got knocked down up, she would just dust herself off and get back up down,"

[tessalu]

This sounds like mental illness to me. Nothing seems right , it was all bad from the start.

[The_Victor]

Sad story, but given this...

Nothing ever had come easy for Carreon. Kicked out of her mother's house at 12 after becoming pregnant, she had six children - all girls - by the time she was 22. She battled substance addiction, poverty, jail time and at least one abusive relationship....

it sounds like she made her own bed.