And they aren’t saying this particular 17 YO is a bad mother either. But the environment she was in is another thing.
Well, she is an ignorant one, at the very least-and I can’t imagine a 17 year old who is a mom being placed in a foster home like a little kid-don’t our tax dollars still pay rent for single moms to have a section 8 home? I’m willing to bet the “foster home” is right in the same crappy place-and people-she is in right now-would it not be best to get her away from that neighborhood and mindset? And maybe some parenting classes, job training, etc?
Sorry for the rant-I was pushing 30 years ago at work to get young women like that out of the s*** the were living in by cutting off the greedy relatives, and dropping the mom into an unfamiliar, but safer and more sensible place. They nearly always get to like the nicer life after awhile, and actually become people you would want to know.