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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.

My heart aches for many of the persons involved.

I've seen the inside of these kinds of lives up close an personal.

It is more pathetic than reprehensible, IMHO.

I disagree on baby #1. I think the woman's mother is primarily responsible for that initial bondoogle and her reaction? Kick a 12 year old out who will likely turn to the man who got her pregnant and make her situation worse. I give her a pass on #1, but the rest of it she could have corrected. By pregnany #1, she knew what caused babies and had plenty of time to have more in her 20's after getting an education. She chose instead to continue to lay down with the baby's father and then another man and produce more instead of taking the high road and improving her situation. Certainly, she was mature enough by age 28 when she picked a gang member to be the man in her life. At that point, you figure people learn from the mistakes they made, even if it was a parent who pushed them in that direction initially long before.