re: Mother of 11 kids can’t find work, goes to media for help

Pretty much every store, restaurant, or fast food place in Memphis is hiring. Now hiring and help wanted signs everywhere.

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If you were wondering

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Oh, I wasn’t.

I’m 100% serious when I say that she should be euthanized if she gets pregnant again

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Tell the govt to stop playing daddy and they will.

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Bingo.

We should stop paying after two kids. I would support paying men and women to be sterilized. That would be a better use of tax dollars.

Well, this is certainly an overflowing shitbucket of bad life choices right here, but I still find it sad. If she was raised in the same kind of environment that she’s raising all these kids in, odds are she didn’t have too many examples of good decision-making to learn from in the first place. Without strong modeling it’s easy to fall into a cycle of poor choices that result in limited opportunities, which lead to more poor choices, which further limit opportunities, and so on. Plus when you’re a young, single mother of 11 children who’s been stuck in a menial fast food job for more than a decade, sex probably seems like one of the few sources of pleasure that isn’t beyond your immediate means and mental resources. (Everybody needs a diversion, but that’s a prime example of the limited options—>bad decisions cycle at work.)

In this case it sounds like there might be something to build on, though. It’s I incredibly irresponsible to have had that many children under those conditions, but she at least seems to give a frick about them. She’s also not trying to avoid working and is capable of long-term commitment to an employer. There’s external and internal motivation here, which means there’s potential for positive change. Maybe instead of spending piles of money supporting her ever-growing brood with no regard to their actual quality of life and with no end in sight, put it toward a prescription birth control implant, vocational training to give her marketable skills and opportunities for advancement, and reliable childcare. That way she might actually stand a chance of getting off the system one day, and of keeping 11 more people off the system in the future.

Even with the expense of paying for their food, housing, medical care, etc. in the short-term, that’s a much better long-term investment than paying that same amount in perpetuity minus whatever negligible amount she might have made working 20 hours a week in a minimum-wage job, X12, then increased exponentially over time.

Well - we are paying for 25 Million Illegal aliens or maybe 30 Million - nobody has a clue how many are in the country

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Well - we are paying for 25 Million Illegal aliens or maybe 30 Million - nobody has a clue how many are in the country

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Way more than that.

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After having 11 kids it’s still just her and them? Not a single one of the dads stuck around?

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she probably dont know who they are

give the b some needle and thread so she can sew it shut

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Meanwhile young twenty-something responsible “tax payers” wait until their house hold income is over $100k before even thinking about having a baby.

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babies aren’t something you wait until the right time for. There’s never a right time.

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Well here’s the shocker of the century. She may have been dishonest about certain details to gain sympathy for a GoFundMe. Never saw this coming.