It is easy to become overwhelmed when you are taking care of the mentally ill while working minimum wage or barely above it getting paid a dollar that is worth but a fraction of the one your parents earned, and are probably have health problems yourself. And these days with divorce and one child households for the last few decades being the norm, people do not have the family network of helpers that we did.
It is easy for people who know nothing but what the press bothers to note and nothing about what is omitted to say “balderdash.”
Far too common these days.
AS you noted, she was working - and now
No Job
No home and likely
No child.
Her crime?
Being poor & having a child