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In reply to the discussion: Impoverished Mother Dies In Jail Cell Over Unpaid Fines For Her Kids Missing School [View all]DebJ
(7,699 posts)37. I'm curious about that and one other thing also.
Why have seven children when you can't feed six or five or four or three or two?
Feeding and schooling the two children I had was extremely difficult to do on my own.
To have had another child would have been cruel and irresponsible to the first two
(who I had while married to a man who later kind of lost his mind). Children aren't something
one collects like books or butterflies. They have needs.
If you can't even feed them, how in the world are you going to attend to their schooling?
If this was 1950 I wouldn't ask that question.
I just don't understand.
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Impoverished Mother Dies In Jail Cell Over Unpaid Fines For Her Kids Missing School [View all]
Stuart G
Jun 2014
OP
"We have no idea why she died...only that it isn't our fault" (paraphrased)
Horse with no Name
Jun 2014
#1
Is there any of the old system in this country that still works? Where are her eight children now? I
jwirr
Jun 2014
#11
had experience this past year with a child who at times did not show up at school....
dembotoz
Jun 2014
#25
Have you ever smoked? I really believe that metabolic stress could do it.
Spitfire of ATJ
Jun 2014
#50