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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.