[Cicero]

A wonderful story, no question.

What I feel conflicted about is the prospect that the baby will be taken away from her mother. Yes, it was not a good idea to leave the baby only with a couple of young boys to watch her. But the baby is still likelier to be better off staying with a mother who is working to support her than going into the hands of the state social workers.

Hopefully they can work this out somehow without taking the baby away from her mother.

[altura]

I agree with you. The mother was careless but she needed to work.

She shouldn't have had a baby but she did.

Foster homes and state care are not always the greatest things and if this mother loves the baby and learns her lesson, the baby should stay there...with observation.

We are sometimes too quick to snatch babies away, and we are sometimes too slow to do it.

[familyop]

"But the baby is still likelier to be better off staying with a mother who is working to support her than going into the hands of the state social workers."

...agreed. I've known a few school teachers in their 30s who left their small children home alone for an hour or more at a time. Replies to my concern from their feminist friends/coworkers were generally that "the children need to learn responsibility." Women are equipped to have children during their teen years, but most older ones today are not as responsible as 13-year-olds of more than a 100 years ago. Too many parents want their girls to put off having kids (IOWs, to be kids), until they have PhD.s and are in their 30s.

Our society is sick, indeed.

[AFPhys]

I agree with you completely.

Wonderful story. I wish the working mom good wishes, prayers, and a new appreciation for the life of her baby. I suspect she may never get over her contempt for her brothers, and I also hope that can be reconciled some day.