“Is she a sociopath? Brain damaged? If she didn’t want to care for her son, why didn’t she leave him at one of the many facilities that will find a decent home for him?”
If it is the same as in GA she gets a bump in her welfare for the kid. There has to be more to it than that, but that may be the story.
I assume that most poor, unmarried women see an increase in their benefits when they have a child. However, most of them don’t do this ... for five years. This woman is seriously loo-loo.