Posted on 07/20/2002 5:26:01 AM PDT by freeper12
I was married to her and supporting our children. Notice I said "our" children. They can with the package. Her deadbeat useless ex-husband was supposed to pay her $150.00 a month. We could not afford a lawyer to go after him, since I was supporting his children. (which I did willingly)
The state wanted 25% of whatever they received in child support as a fee. Instead of charging him for his lack of responsibility, the state charged it against the children's money.
I find that very strange way to defend children
It also was 20 years ago, so hopefully it has changed since then
So a mother should stay in a home where her husband is physically abusive toward her?
I don't know the real numbers are, I'm sure I could find out by a simple Google search.
BUT, I know it is not .05 % for welfare and 48% for defense.
BTW, I wish those numbers were correct.
people in need are at the tip of a pointed sword.
it means disaster for many of us.
the avalanche of verification paperwork
struggling to survive
Another whiner, divorced, with a houseful of kids, undoubtedly soaking her ex for mondo child support, demanding that the taxpayers foot the bill for advancing her education. In a socialist state like Massachusetts, it's not the typical response to a personal crisis, these days it's the ONLY response!
I especially liked this line:
What we need is simple: 24-hour day care
Oh. Is that all? How about maid service? A chauffeur? Gardener? Someone to carry all those heavy books for you? How about a valet?
The arrogance of the parasite class knows no limit.
This woman asked for her troubles. She ended the marriage. The husband can't be all that bad because they are civil to each other, he wants to be with his kids and she trusts him enough to have him babysit.
Nothing new here. Just the typical selfish American woman in her 20s 0r 30s who thinks marriage is easily disposed of with few negative consequences.
"on more than a few buses to the welfare office and back."
Well - since you are riding the welfare train (that working Americans pay for) because of stupid decisions you made, how about putting your non-lazy butt to work cleaning up each bus stop you visit to and from the Welfare Office.
Lets get back to the very basic situation. The lady was once without child, now, would she please enlighten us to at what point in her life did the rest of us intervene and cause her to have not one,but two children????
The author says she is not stupid, fine, then how is it she has two children and cannot care for them?
If she feels that we do not "understand", she is wrong. I was raised during the depression, with five siblings, with help from no one. Raised in poverty. My parents were not educated but they were smart enough to manage on their own. Also they were "responsible enough to do it.
Too bad it didn't work out this way. Many of the 'welfare' moms don't want to get a job or an education.
Isn't it a shame that many have spoiled this system for the few that want to make it work.
On another tack, why does this woman have two small children and yet no husband. I realize that she says she is divorced but this makes no difference to the children or the situation.
Gosh, life is filled with hard choices, now isn't it? As as one whose hairdresser -- a single mother -- has supported her daughter in such a vocation for the last fourteen years, and without the benefit of being on the government dole, the answer is:
YES!
Now quit bitching, Cheryl and go to work. Maybe you should have thought of all this before you got naked and did the dastardly deed.
agreed
This was my point too but another poster assumed that I was suggesting that the woman was in an abusive relationship and should not have divorced. Most divorces are NOT because of abuse, but because "one or both" partners are "not HAPPY". ahhhh---the license didn't come with a "happy" guarentee.
Yeah, Chrystel, life is one tricky mutha. All the harder with yer head up yer bum.
Her husband see the kids when ever he wants. (no support)
She wants offices to arrange their schedule around her (she is the center of her own universe)
Sounds like she would like a bus to pick her up at her front door, drop her kids off at day care wait for her, drive her back to day care, stop at the grocery store so she can spend her food stamps on a nice juicy steak.
Then the bus can drop her kids off at day care (again) take her to school while she gets a liberal education, and go
into politics and make it even easier for other poor misfortunate people like her....
Dam...... where do I sign up?
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