Posted on 11/28/2004 9:53:36 AM PST by sinkspur
Once a party girl, teen mother struggles to raise quadruplets
Amanda Davis was 17 when she met Jimmy Calabrese. He was 27 and married. They shared cigarettes and a passion for NASCAR. Amanda was at a low point in her life, and he "filled in the empty place. If I wasn't with him, I was thinking about my life and how I messed up." Within two months, she was pregnant. Now Jimmy doesn't visit much or pay child support. Her mother lives in Denver. Her father is in jail. Amanda's salvation is her 61-year-old grandmother, Connie Franklin. Everyone, family or not, calls her Granny.
Amanda and Granny sit on opposite ends of the couch, each holding a baby. Amanda leans forward, rocking Lexi gently but quickly back and forth. Granny lays her head back, closing her eyes and patting Abby.
"I wish someone would give me a bottle and put me to sleep," Granny says to no one in particular. Today, she stole a few minutes to wash her long red hair. She never got a chance to brush it.
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Oh for Heaven's sake! "Filled in the empty place?"
I thought he was just glad to see her :)
I guess adoption was out of the question? Those babies would fill some empty hearts, and Little Dingbat might be able to put her life back together...
LMAO!
Adoption? No, no, no. . .don't you see. . . .abortion is the answer. . .that and more sex ed.
/sarcasm off.
They'll probably move to Minnesota.
If there's another on the way --- sounds like another filled the empty space the father of 4 left.
Perfect example of someone who should be sterilized.
Hong Kong has a neighborhood "granny" that goes around to houses "counseling" couples to only have two babies.
This out of control reproduction is only going to hurt us because they'll most likely grow up to be demonrats. But on a positive note, it is mostly dummycraps that have abortions.
Why isn't Daddy Dearest being held personally, financially responsible for the children he helped to create?
sounds like welfare dreams
The article is full of nonsense like this:
Amanda is shopping for the perfect tongue stud. Granny tells her to let her tongue piercing close, but Amanda clings to this scrap of her teenage self.
Amanda couldn't have made it through the year without cribs, bassinets, clothes and diapers donated after she appeared on The Sharon Osborne Show. Strangers eased her burden with Wal-Mart gift cards, a stroller for four and toys. For now, the babies' Social Security disability checks of $562 each pay the bills. They could end if social workers decide they are no longer eligible for a program for low-birth-weight babies. After living in the apartment free for three months, Amanda began paying $699 a month in rent. A year's supply of Pampers ends in February.
Moms with teenage daughters ought to make them read this article to see what NOT to do!!!
Nope. Same guy. She keeps giving him the milk. As someone else said, it never seems to occur to these teen mothers to give these children up for adoption.
Instead, she'll doom herself to a life of poverty and misery, and the kids will join her.
More crap:
When money gets short, they hawk a DVD player or a ring at the pawnshop.
She never asked Jimmy for child support because she thought he'd be around. A court could order him to contribute financially. All Amanda has to do is ask.
"If he decides that he wants to be there and help with them and everything like that, then I'm not going to make him pay child support," she says, pursing her lips. "But if he chooses not to be in their life at all, then I want him to pay child support."
Sheesh!!
Why isn't the father being held financially responsible?
"Jimmy's half dozen visits to the apartment during the babies' first year have not inspired much hope. The arrival of the fifth baby, perhaps to be named Matthew, gives Amanda another reason to press Jimmy for help. "
I'm just speechless!!
Sounds to me as if the "empty space" is rarely empty
The mother won't do it. She still thinks this guy is going to stick around.
That line had me laughing heartily!</p>
Obviously she's too selfish and obsessed with self-pity to offer them up for adoption. She's an example of what's wrong with American women and the whole "women's movement."
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