Did the system fail her?

[carlfense]

It's too easy to look at something like this, which make no mistake is totally pathetic, and get riled up over an outlier. Mental illness also seems to be a factor here. If you would like to discuss mental health care in the US, particularly among those on the fringes of society that would actually be interesting.

I was also thinking along those lines. Everyone is drawn to the most outrageous examples.

 

[krc1995]

It's too easy to look at something like this, which make no mistake is totally pathetic, and get riled up over an outlier. Mental illness also seems to be a factor here. If you would like to discuss mental health care in the US, particularly among those on the fringes of society that would actually be interesting.

I was also thinking along those lines. Everyone is drawn to the most outrageous examples.

what mental illness? If you live in the south, you see kids being brought up in disturbing environments. I work in a public school that 70% of the kids get free lunch and this case really isn't that unusual.

 

[carlfense]

It's too easy to look at something like this, which make no mistake is totally pathetic, and get riled up over an outlier. Mental illness also seems to be a factor here. If you would like to discuss mental health care in the US, particularly among those on the fringes of society that would actually be interesting.

I was also thinking along those lines. Everyone is drawn to the most outrageous examples.

what mental illness? If you live in the south, you see kids being brought up in disturbing environments. I work in a public school that 70% of the kids get free lunch and this case really isn't that unusual.

My comment was directed towards the first sentence. I'm not saying that this sort of attitude is extremely rare . . . I'm saying that the media and viewers are drawn to the most extreme examples. It's tempting (and probably common) to attribute this attitude to more people than actually exhibit it.

For example: this welfare recipient has a ridiculous attitude and worldview so all welfare recipients have a ridiculous attitude and worldview.

 

[husker_99]

Or course she doesn't know better, how would she? It's her culture, she was brought up to be rewarded by having more children. This started back five, six, generations ago when we started paying people not to work, all they have time to do is make babies. Scary is that most of us working people have less children because it is expensive to raise them, while the non-working class have more chidren because they are not responsible for any of them. What is it going to be like in two or three generations? Her fifteen plus kids having 15 plus kids.

I would be a fan of volentery sterilization. I think we would be economically ahead if we payed her $25000 a year for the rest of her life in exchange for her ovaries when she was 25. It will never happen, but the burden of these kids is going ruin our country in a few generations. I do applaud her that 75% of kids have the same father, in my area that is an unusually high percentage.

Just be easier for us to stop paying after the 2nd child. Or if you are more extreme the government shouldn't help you at all.