'How am I abusing my child?': woman panhandling with infant rejects criticism [View all]

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“Anything helps”, reads the sign that Megan Doudney lays out in front of her baby buggy as she nestles her 6-week-old infant in her arms while panhandling on San Francisco’s Market Street.

But the 34-year-old homeless mother has gotten a lot more than the financial help she was hoping for.

While Doudney has received an outpouring of support from some, others have unleashed a maelstrom of criticism on social media against her and panhandling with children that have turned into face-to-face confrontations on the street and 911 calls reporting her.

“It’s just harassment,” said the mother, who is currently staying with her baby and two dogs at a city-funded, temporary family shelter run by Hamilton Families. Doudney, who has a severe back condition and receives social security payments, said she used the money she collected panhandling to cover extra expenses and to save money for a future deposit on an apartment.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/31/homeless-baby-san-francisco-panhandling


Maybe these people should go back and see Pelosi film on this issue, because whoever is harassing this woman and child after all a human beings.............and they just can't put themselves in that persons shoes, no empathy

http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/san-francisco-2-0