I completely agree.
My first two posts were sympathetic and filled with good advice about obtaining public assistance.
I was one of the first people to read the young woman's post.
She did not identify her gender, so I assumed it was an 18 year old boy.
I gave “him” a good summary of the services available to homeless young men.
Then, the Mother posted, and I found out this was a girl, not a boy.
Problem solved - you call the Women's Hotline, they pick you up, you go straight to a shelter or a motel, probably in every town in America, and certainly in larger towns.
There's a reason you don't see women and children sleeping in the street.
It's dangerous, it's frightening, and taxpayers and government do whatever is necessary to help them.
That's what I wrote in my second post.
Then the Mother writes another post and says the girl is in a wheelchair.
That's when I started to doubt the truthfulness of this story.
We have a grandmother, a Mother, and a daughter who do not know that homeless women can go to shelters?
We have a grandmother, a Mother, and a daughter who do not know that an 18 year old girl in a wheelchair is eligible for a multitude of public and private welfare programs?
That's the part of the story I found incredible, and that's why I started to question what I was reading.
They can go to a shelter, in the city...which is 25 miles from where she is...if there is room. They are full and there is a waiting list. ...and, she is not eligible for welfare, and she refuses to run out and get pregnant just so she would be!