I thought the article was very interesting. I have no idea who she is [don't really care] or if she is as she represents herself. But I think her reasons for the poor decision-making that leads to and maintains poverty were very interesting.
If you read more of her explanation, it sounds as if she was not an unwed mother but was married when she conceived her children. She has some significant mental health problems.
For what it’s worth, there really are some good honest people who are members of the extremely hard-working poor. They’re not making bad decisions or getting knocked up or trying to game the system, but one or two pieces of bad luck knock them straight into poverty.
Example: a husband and wife I know who make their living by cleaning horse stalls. They aren’t full-time employees anywhere because around here, horse farms hire stall cleaners as contractors, not employees with benefits. They work extremely hard, are very honest, and do a good job. But they make very little money. They live some distance from where the stables are because they simply can’t afford to rent a cottage in the sort of area where people have the money to pay for stall cleaning. That means they have a commute on top of their long exhausting day. They’re doing hard physical labor in all weather, so they don’t have much energy for other things. A repair to their truck is a disaster—they’re out of work for as long as it takes to fix the truck, assuming they have enough money to fix it at all. These folks haven’t done anything wrong, but they didn’t have the background or smarts or talent to go to law school. Now he’s 50 or so, she’s 42. They’re not going to go to school and study for some good career, even if they had the time and strength.
They haven’t done anything wrong except maybe not be as sharp as the people who hire them. They don’t deserve contempt. But there are people who make fun of them or think they’re lazy when they have financial or health problems. I’m sorry to say that Freepers as a group seem to have no compassion for the working poor.