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bringer · 07-26-2005, 07:21 PM

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Originally Posted by chase

To a point, I agree. But I got pregnant at 16 from a non-consentual situation...I hesitate to say rape only because I don't want it to ever hit my son's ears that he was a product of rape. Had it not been for welfare, I would not have been able to graduate high school with my class, and go on to college. I worked, went to high school, and then college, and raised my son, and had no more children for seven years, until I was married.

Things happen...

I know one girl who's fiance got sent to prison....they went from living comfortably on two incomes, to her struggling to support their kids, because he can't pay support from prison. It wasn't HER fault he broke the law...and she DID have money put away, but it didn't last five years.

My son's father was killed in a car accident..his current wife and their three kids were in the car. Their daughter was in traction for a while, and still needs physical therapy, nearly three years later. She was a stay at home mom before. She had to care for a temporarily disabled daughter, but even without that, her kids were emotionally scarred from watching their dad get killed a foot away from them, and they were not ready to be apart from the one parent they had left for a few months. Welfare got them over the hump. Now she works.

There are people who genuinely need the help, and don't abuse it. They accept temporary assistance and get back up on their own two feet, and pay the same taxes you do. Without the help I got..I may not have ever been able to graduate high school..certainly not with my class..because instead of working part time, I would have had to work full time..and then some to cover child care. And then I would REALLY be a drain on the system, because without an education, I probably wouldn't be able to support my three kids now that I am a single mom again, and my ex doesn't seem to think he needs to support the two he helped bring into this world.

Not every person abuses the help they are given. But I guess we are both right, because a lot do.

theres always exceptions but the sad reality is most, ie more then 50%, abuse it and/or are on it because of poor planning. another sad thing about it is had that happened to you now in california and you had a minimim wage job, even close to full time you wouldnt qualify because theres a line infront with no income and 5 mouths to feed.