Without knowing more about the case, I disagree. She needs help and so does this child. It's obviously more than she can do alone. Maybe with some intervention now, a delinquent can be prevented. Unconditional love does not mean turning a blind eye. It means discipline... maybe the kind provided by the state. It just depends...
If that's all she can afford, then that's her only recourse. But, foster homes are very often the source of more problems, truthfully.
Boy's Town was successful in its time, albeit with some notable failures; society hamstrings the parents and then blames them for the full prisons.
"Unconditional love does not mean turning a blind eye. It means discipline... maybe the kind provided by the state. It just depends..."
Or maybe punishment of the corporal kind. I imagine that a good regimen of switching-when-earned would do wonders for him.