[flyervet]

oh come on. You would have me believe that the only way a single mother can make it is to strip for a living. that is the only way to feed a child? BS!

Not at all. However, it can be extremely difficult for any woman (or man for that matter) to leave the sex industry, having a tainted past. I imagine that for a woman who has another life she is responsible for, i.e., her daughter, the obstacles would be extremely challenging. I am reluctant to write this woman off with such an easy, canned answer as "find another job". She faces some enormous challenges in this. Maybe she has a strong support network, maybe she doesn't. One thing is certain however, this school and the church it's affiliated with certainly aren't part of it.

we are all hypothesizing her lack of skills anyway, there is nothing to say that this woman doesn't ENJOY her job and while a Rhodes Scholar, prefers it to legit work!

That's possible. It's also possible this woman is secretly a male Al Qaida operative who is 900 years old and a Jedi knight. In the absence of other information on this woman, we should probably rely on our knowledge of strippers and single mothers in general.

[xsmommy]

it is quite likely that she can get a job that would allow her to live a respectable life, while her child attends a public school. if she is making big bucks as a stripper, it might require her to SCALE BACK, economize, sacrifice in other ways, in order to live a more modest, but moral lifestyle, where the morals she seeks to instill in her child, are lived out at home.