I think the poor woman is probably trying to improve and she must have had the lights flicker on. But where’s Daddy? These children are all very young and very close together, so she must be still be able to remember his name. Of course, he’s probably forgotten hers, but that doesn’t matter.
I knew someone who worked with a program for pregnant highschoolers. It turned out that THREE of them were pregnant by the same guy, who was 12 years older than the oldest of them. One girl went to court to seek child support...and the other 2 threatened to kill her for “turnin’ on a brother.”
Until that culture changes, I’d betcha that all the male children in that photo will be in jail by age 15 and the girls will probably be pregnant or already have kids.
I’m not criticizing this woman, who has enough problems of her own, but the culture that has produced this.
“Until that culture changes...”
That is root of the problems in the inner city — the culture.
It’s actually a Catch-22. If they sue for child support, he won’t pay it but he will get visitation.
My wife’s cousin went through this. She didn’t want to lose the baby every weekend to the daddy’s momma if the daddy wasn’t going to pay anyway. It would have been years before they packed daddy off to jail but would still lose the child every weekend.
Up here, the girls encourage the baby daddy to go into the military. The military sends the check.