ogionik wrote :
Quote:jesus christ 1400 a month and shes homeless?
Quote:...rents for a three-bedroom apartment in the greater Springfield area range from about $800 to $1,300 without utilities...
let's stay at the low end of $800 and even say it includes utilities .
that leaves $600 a months for 5 people , food , clothing , some basic municipal transportation - if any is available . $20 a day for a family of five doesn't sound like much money to me .
of course , one might ask why she has 4 children and where the father(s) is/are .
from what i understand , birthcontrol is not widely promoted in the U.S. - and it costs money too .
fathers do seem to be able to vanish from the face of the earth , and even if found seem to be able to avoid/delay making payments for their children .
if the father has started a new family , the old family will likely not get anything from him unless he has a large income .
a pretty sad situation in our society , but that's the way it is .
btw putting the children into a home would probably be much more costly than paying the mother to look after them .
what one needs to be concerned about also : what's going to happen when the children grow up ?
will the environment in which they grew up , rob them of any chance to escape the poverty treadmill ?
preaching about it , condemning it will not likely have any affect on it . better education about "the facts of life" and decent jobs might help reduce those problems eventually , but it would likely not offer any short-term solution .
hbg
