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So she and her child can live their lives in pious poverty?

No excuse. I was a single parent for 12 years and for much of that time, we did live in virtual poverty. However, my church helped and even chipped in so that my daughter could go to Christian school for awhile. When a child lives with just one parent, that parent has an extra responsbility to live a morally exempliary life. A very special, close relationship often exists between single moms and their children, particularly if they only have one. This is a choice that mother is making and she is the one taking steps to ruin her child's life. So what if she took a job that meant she couldn't go around hiring lawyers? Her daughter deserves a lot better and isn't getting it.

However, my church helped and even chipped in so that my daughter could go to Christian school for awhile.

I've known parents to work their day jobs and then work as school janitors at night for free tuition for their kids at Christian schools. Many Christian schools will work with the parents on a work barter system.

When a child lives with just one parent, that parent has an extra responsbility to live a morally exempliary life. A very special, close relationship often exists between single moms and their children, particularly if they only have one. This is a choice that mother is making and she is the one taking steps to ruin her child's life. So what if she took a job that meant she couldn't go around hiring lawyers? Her daughter deserves a lot better and isn't getting it.

I admire what you did for your child. you are in a much better position than i am to speak to this, as i have never experienced it. but i can tell you i would not strip to support my child. it is never necessary, it may be a CHOICE but not necessary.

I was a single parent for 12 years and for much of that time, we did live in virtual poverty. However, my church helped and even chipped in so that my daughter could go to Christian school for awhile.

Good for you. Imagine how much more difficult it would have been had you not had the support of your church. Now remember that this woman does not.

Now consider the fact that this woman had made some poor choices in her life that have created for her extremely difficult obstacles.

Now consider how many churches would be willing to assist a single mother who works in the sex industry

I'm not making excuses for this woman. She has made some lousy, foolish choices and got herself stuck in a crack. She makes a good living as a stripper, but it is really hard, if not impossible, to leave that life behind without a lot of help and support. But I do think that instead of sitting in judgement we should acknowledge the realities of those obstacles.