[grundle]

This woman has six young children. The article makes zero mention of their father.

[GAgal]

“I’ve got five babies in the car with me, and you’re telling me I didn't make it in the lottery,” she remembered thinking in disbelief. “What did you guys do?” ... Words fail

[newzjunkey]

She never said a man was living in the Chevy with her and the first five kids. She just had number six in October knowing they were already homeless. It also mentions she didn’t bother applying for another voucher lottery in Mesa because she didn’t like the odds.

At no point does she or any of the housing advocates address personal responsibility. Instead she complained that her children are the future and should be the city of Glendale’s priority.

The comments on Yahoo are scathing.

We all know if a breadwinner husband or father had died, it would have been added to the propagandist “woe is me” tale because of high sympathy points but most comments notice there’s no mention of any of the sperm donors for her five, now six, kids.

Stuff happens out of people’s control or capacity to cope but her situation is not one to build public policy around and makes for a foolish article without proper analysis of what she did and is doing in her life and the danger she’s put all these kids in.

I will say I always found the San Diego model where there’s typically a twelve year wait for assistance to be appalling. There was virtually no assistance for men, for example, unless they were addicts. People who have no one should be a high priority—the article mentions a voucher-winning single woman from CA more than once as if she should just find a man to shack up with. Getting her housed may be cheaper in the long run than if she follows the path of the primary storyline and becomes a baby factory.

Teaching women to have more children they can’t care for is not a recipe for sound public policy. This is only going to incentivize actions that strain resources and harm the other children. I am almost at the point of saying child welfare services should be looking at this woman’s case closely because it’s not clear she’s acting in their best interests.

The Left would say the world owes her a living because of her womb and it’s no ones place to judge her decisions even if we’re paying for the consequences not just in section 8 housing, wic, snap/ food stamps but through the inevitable outcomes in the mental, physical and emotional well-being of her five six kids when they mature. Generational dependence exists and we cannot depend on government schools to teach the necessary skills to break the cycle.

[dynachrome]

I was saddened, so I gave them katie hobbs’ address.

[Hulka]

“The article makes zero mention of their father”

Actually: “The article makes zero mention of their FATHERS”

Doubt she knows any of the fathers. . .