Rather than take the approach you did, you should have given a sentence or two to this mother's story.
She is no welfare queen.:
Through her blog, “True Stories of a Midwest Yankee,” Andrea documents “life unfolding,” through family tales about moving from the East Coast to the Midwest, with her many kids — one of whom has special needs and another with “9, yes N-I-N-E” food allergies, and all of whom are home-schooled. In her grocery store post, she notes she’s both “grateful and embarrassed” that her family has been on the government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) since her husband was laid off after 17 years with his former company, and that her family had, for a time, been homeless