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Promising future is sidelined by burdens of single motherhood
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | February 18, 2013 | David Templeton

Posted on 02/18/2013 1:27:23 AM PST by grundle

Ms. Perrin received a full scholarship to Clarion University of Pennsylvania.

At 19, she became pregnant and gave birth to Archie, who was diagnosed with hemophilia, a serious blood disorder that prevents the blood from clotting.

She quit college.

Four years later, she would have a second child, Katheryn, to the same father, Gideon Beatty.

In time, she placed her children in day care and landed a bank job, eventually becoming bank manager, a position that paid $50,000 a year.

But Archie suffered a serious episode of bleeding in his knee while at day care and Children, Youth and Family Services stepped in, she said, threatening to put Archie in foster care if she refused to care for him full time.

By then, Mr. Beatty had been sentenced to 15 years in prison on drug charges.

Ms. Perrin said she "felt like a failure."

"I quit my job and became a welfare recipient," she said. "That really knocks you off from feeling you will ever be able to do anything in life. Being a mother is not a bad thing but you feel you never will be able to achieve your goals."

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1 posted on 02/18/2013 1:27:33 AM PST by grundle
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To: grundle
Children, Youth and Family Services stepped in

Well, that there is your problem

2 posted on 02/18/2013 1:29:09 AM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: grundle

If she wants to do something reality positive, she should try reaching young girls with her story so maybe they’ll think twice before they go out and get knocked up.


3 posted on 02/18/2013 1:53:05 AM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: grundle

As an individual who carries the gene for hemophilia, why wasn’t genetic counseling provided?. Pittsburgh has a comprehensive Hemophila Treatment Center.


4 posted on 02/18/2013 2:52:29 AM PST by Artie (We are surrounded by MORONS)
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To: GeronL
By then, Mr. Beatty had been sentenced to 15 years in prison on drug charges.

There's probably a lot more to this story.

5 posted on 02/18/2013 3:24:45 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: grundle

Single motherhood promoted by your caring LIBERAL humanitarian democrates with a slew of taxpayer social services ready for the taking. Of coarse you do know who to vote for come election day RIGHT!?


6 posted on 02/18/2013 3:28:08 AM PST by ronnie raygun (Lexington and Concord Americans experience thier first gun grab attempt)
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To: grundle
Sorry, but as a self-supporting white woman, I have a lot on my plate already and I don't have the time or money to give to people like her, who have obviously made their own bad choices (Lord knows I've made plenty of them too, but at least I didn't end up as a single mother).

Oh, wait--thanks to taxes, I am being forced to support people like her--wiether I want to or not!

7 posted on 02/18/2013 3:33:03 AM PST by pbmaltzman
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To: grundle
Sorry, but as a self-supporting white woman, I have a lot on my plate already and I don't have the time or money to give to people like her, who have obviously made their own bad choices (Lord knows I've made plenty of them too, but at least I didn't end up as a single mother).

Oh, wait--thanks to taxes, I am being forced to support people like her--wiether I want to or not!

8 posted on 02/18/2013 3:33:08 AM PST by pbmaltzman
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To: grundle
Sorry, but as a self-supporting white woman, I have a lot on my plate already and I don't have the time or money to give to people like her, who have obviously made their own bad choices (Lord knows I've made plenty of them too, but at least I didn't end up as a single mother).

Oh, wait--thanks to taxes, I am being forced to support people like her--wiether I want to or not!

9 posted on 02/18/2013 3:33:22 AM PST by pbmaltzman
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To: grundle

It has been known for ages that single-motherhood is a nearly 100% certain path to poverty.


10 posted on 02/18/2013 4:14:53 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: grundle

Interesting how the story includes the information that she had her second child by the same father to assure the reader that she was making better choices than being a single mother of two with different fathers would imply. Then the reader finds out that the father is a drug dealer. She started the cycle when she “got pregnant”. Is that like getting the flu?


11 posted on 02/18/2013 4:23:18 AM PST by ladylee (LadyLee)
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To: grundle

She “became” pregnant and “became” a welfare mother. It just happened.


12 posted on 02/18/2013 4:49:09 AM PST by glorgau
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You know what I like about this story?

Although she’s stuck, she’s using that time to help create a program that’ll help other single moms get through it. She’s using this as a growth experience.


13 posted on 02/18/2013 4:50:49 AM PST by Marie ("The last time Democrats gloated this hard after a health care victory, they lost 60 House seats.")
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Katheryn is a bastard maker. She should be exiled.


14 posted on 02/18/2013 4:56:33 AM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....The fairest Deduction to be reduced is the Standard Deduction)
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By then, Mr. Beatty had been sentenced to 15 years in prison on drug charges. Ms. Perrin said she "felt like a failure."

Q.E.D.

15 posted on 02/18/2013 5:04:38 AM PST by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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"Life is full of the unexpected," she said. "Anyone can become a single mom or dad. It's not by choice."

HUH??? So it just happened by chance that the same drug dealer stopped by TWICE to impregnate you???

16 posted on 02/18/2013 6:11:47 AM PST by madprof98
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To: grundle
Last week, Marcy Perrin prepared a chicken dinner with mashed potatoes and bean salad while her 8-year-old son, Archie, did his homework and firebrand daughter, 4-year-old Katheryn, swooshed through the rooms, climbed atop the dinner table to lounge, then clung to her mother's leg as her colorful beaded braids went whipping through the air.
 

Good healthy chow so I extrapolate this into her being a good mother. Good luck to her

17 posted on 02/18/2013 7:03:25 AM PST by dennisw (too much of a good thing is a bad thing --- Joe Pine)
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To: fatnotlazy
If she wants to do something reality positive, she should try reaching young girls with her story so maybe they’ll think twice before they go out and get knocked up.

She has both halves of the equation, right at home. She can teach Katheryn not to get "knocked up" while at the same time, teaching Archie not to do any knocking up of young girls.

I have a 14 year old daughter and a 13 year old son at home, I'm trying my best to teach them both the right way to do and not do things.

18 posted on 02/18/2013 7:06:12 AM PST by Graybeard58 (_.. ._. .. _. _._ __ ___ ._. . ___ ..._ ._ ._.. _ .. _. .)
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Katheryn is a bastard maker. She should be exiled

Credit where credit is due. There's another "bastard maker" in this scenario but he's already in prison.

19 posted on 02/18/2013 7:09:47 AM PST by Graybeard58 (_.. ._. .. _. _._ __ ___ ._. . ___ ..._ ._ ._.. _ .. _. .)
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To: Graybeard58

I notice in the article’s comments section, some liberal is blaming the ‘war on drugs’ for long jail sentences as being the problem.

Yeah, society has failed again. Right. Brilliant.


20 posted on 02/18/2013 10:40:53 AM PST by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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