[SirJohnBarleycorn]

Kristiana Bennett, a junior with a child and a part-time job, knows what that means. Between classes, she uses the phone to check on her son at day care. They live in a Section 8 apartment off campus. Once, in a financially desperate moment, Bennett considered dancing at an adult club -- $400 in a night compared with the $11 an hour she earned caring for an elderly woman. Ultimately, Bennett decided she couldn't do it. But that feeling of desperation is what made her relate to the accuser, whom she had met only in passing earlier this year.

"We are the same age," Bennett said. "Both of us are single mothers. And both of us are poor."

Becoming a young unwed mother is the single biggest correlative factor with remaining mired in poverty.

Perhaps it is irresponsible of these young women to have children outside of marriage?

Naaaaah, couldn't be that.

[OakOak]

Excellent point SirJohn!!!

Substance abuse and a criminal history doesn't help anyone's, of any stripe, financial status either!

[Jezebelle]

The "strong brothers" Master Malik spoke of are the fathers of these children, and also the defenders of these "queens" and "divine black women"