Salon: How I Lost my Working Class Life [View all]

[LisaLynne]

http://www.salon.com/2010/04/12/five_kids_in_a_trailer/

I found this to be really interesting and sad. Of course, I know people (not necessarily here) will attack this woman for the choices she's made in her life, because it's always easier to blame the victim instead of facing up to the fact that life is extremely uncertain for all of us (even those she mentions at the beginning who have their relative wealth to fall back on could actually end up much worse off).

I think she's doing remarkably well considering the circumstances and must be an incredibly strong person, but the article is written with brutal honesty. I don't know how I would cope in a similar situation.