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I’m A Single Mother With A Ph.D., And ‘I Literally Worked Seven Days A Week’ To Make Ends Meet
Hufffington Post via Yahoo ^ | December 22, 2023 | Marie Holmes writing about Sherrie Bain and her son

Posted on 12/22/2023 5:15:24 AM PST by grundle

"I’m a single mom. My relationship with my son’s biological dad ended when I was two months pregnant."

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


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To: nonliberal

She was in a relationship (although not married) when she got pregnant and assumed he’d stick around.

She made a bad judgment.


21 posted on 12/22/2023 5:43:00 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: grundle

Proving what I’ve always said. Educated, smart, and wise are three completely different adjectives. I know two PHD women in their mid thirties and they’re two of the stupidest people I’ve met.


22 posted on 12/22/2023 5:43:34 AM PST by JudyinCanada (America's enemies want you to "trust the plan." Fight in reality, not the rabbit holes.)
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To: DoodleBob

Or just keeping her legs closed.


23 posted on 12/22/2023 5:43:54 AM PST by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: grundle
Georgia satellites had it right.

I got a little change in my pocket going jing-a-ling-a-ling Most call you on the telephone, baby, I give you a ring But each time we talk, I get the same old thing Always, "No huggee, no kissee until I get a wedding ring"

24 posted on 12/22/2023 5:44:05 AM PST by Ikeon (I stopped going to my family doctor whenever I felt sick. I've never been healthier. .)
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To: Da Coyote
Couldn’t bear to read the whole thing.

Yes, it is quite horrible. That's why I excerpted the only part that matters.

25 posted on 12/22/2023 5:44:53 AM PST by grundle
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To: Da Coyote

She’s a microbiologist for an aquarium


26 posted on 12/22/2023 5:45:39 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: grundle

“Ph.D. in health sciences “


27 posted on 12/22/2023 5:45:39 AM PST by grundle
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To: Da Coyote

Ph.D. in health sciences


28 posted on 12/22/2023 5:46:01 AM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

No mention of child support ......


29 posted on 12/22/2023 5:46:16 AM PST by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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To: crusty old prospector

Are you referring to President Skelator?


30 posted on 12/22/2023 5:46:38 AM PST by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: CFW

I guess her phd didn’t make her smarter.


31 posted on 12/22/2023 5:47:16 AM PST by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: SauronOfMordor

Likely she said she wanted a child and he said he did not. She went off the Pill, got pregnant and he beat feet. Her own fault.


32 posted on 12/22/2023 5:47:47 AM PST by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: HandBasketHell

I know she’s not a welfare mom. But she is begging for free child care after having a baby out of wedlock. And she’s not willing to discipline her young son for writing on the wall, so I wonder what he’ll think he can get away with when he’s a teenager.


33 posted on 12/22/2023 5:48:19 AM PST by grundle
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To: Cowgirl of Justice
ep - what is this ‘the father has limited financial involvement’ crap?????

It means that she chose to make a baby with a guy who is not responsible.

34 posted on 12/22/2023 5:49:20 AM PST by grundle
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To: Red Badger

“Ph.D. in health sciences” Sounds like a feel good term for social worker.

When my dad was in hospice the help wore badges saying NURSE asst. Figured out they were basically candy stripers without the youth, enthusiasm or competence.


35 posted on 12/22/2023 5:54:38 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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To: Ikeon
Georgia satellites had it right.

Yes, they did.

36 posted on 12/22/2023 5:55:15 AM PST by grundle
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To: CFW

Her bad decisions are Piled Higher and Deeper than most. PHD


37 posted on 12/22/2023 5:56:32 AM PST by meyer (Psalm 83)
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To: grundle

She decided to have a child with a man who deserted her — or she left him; the story doesn’t say — when she was two months pregnant.

She now thinks her problems stem from an unjust social system that does not provide enough support for single women with illegitimate children.

At no point does she reflect on her relationship choices. I’m sure she would be offended at the suggestion that she should have gotten married before having a baby. Who am I to impose my values on her? I have no say in this ... but she feels entitled to be subsidized by my tax dollars.

She is not indigent. She has a well-paying job. She making “only” $60,000 now because she switched jobs — walking away from $90,000 a year — in order to have more time to finish her dissertation (NOT in order to have more time to raise her child).

At every point, what SHE wants is the sole consideration, and “society” is supposed to make that happen. As a practical matter, she is being forced to take responsibility for the consequences of her actions; she has not abandoned her child and she is indeed making sacrifices to raise her child. But she resents the necessity of doing so. She’s 46 years old and still does not want to be an adult.


38 posted on 12/22/2023 6:00:10 AM PST by sphinx
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To: AppyPappy

She’s a chubby 46, with a 6 year old child. Guy hooked up with her for sex, figuring her baby making days were over, and then left when she got pregnant.

By the absence of child support I’m figuring he was a low income guy who is effectively immune from garnishment.


39 posted on 12/22/2023 6:01:07 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: grundle

There are two types of education....

The kind you get between the ears, and the kind you get between a rock and a hard place. Yet she hasn’t learned a thing.

Typical black female...hooking up with Tyrone and then he bolts before she can get her hooks into him.


40 posted on 12/22/2023 6:02:03 AM PST by Ouderkirk (The modern world demands that we approve what it should not even dare ask us to tolerate.)
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