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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Well, that there is your problem
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.
As an individual who carries the gene for hemophilia, why wasn’t genetic counseling provided?. Pittsburgh has a comprehensive Hemophila Treatment Center.
There's probably a lot more to this story.
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!?
Oh, wait--thanks to taxes, I am being forced to support people like her--wiether I want to or not!
Oh, wait--thanks to taxes, I am being forced to support people like her--wiether I want to or not!
Oh, wait--thanks to taxes, I am being forced to support people like her--wiether I want to or not!
It has been known for ages that single-motherhood is a nearly 100% certain path to poverty.
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?
She “became” pregnant and “became” a welfare mother. It just happened.
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.
Katheryn is a bastard maker. She should be exiled.
Q.E.D.
HUH??? So it just happened by chance that the same drug dealer stopped by TWICE to impregnate you???
Good healthy chow so I extrapolate this into her being a good mother. Good luck to her
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.
Credit where credit is due. There's another "bastard maker" in this scenario but he's already in prison.
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.
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