[SCalGal]

I'd say working is more moral than going on welfare, and if I'd had the body for it, I'd have gone through school that way- as it was, I missed most of my daughter's childhood, and she was brought up in daycare.

I can't imagine anyone here thinking that daycare is good for kids.

[flyervet]

We have a friend who's a single mom and who put herself through nursing school stripping. We didn't find out until very near the end of her schooling. We were horrified and offered her money to help her stop. She refused, saying she didn't need charity and besides, most of the other strippers had gotten together to provide and share babysitting duties and she didn't feel she could abandon them. She escaped the alcohol and drug abuse that's rife in the sex industry, but she has many sad stories to tell of others who weren't so fortunate.

All in all, stripping is far from ideal employment, but sometimes life hands us tough choices.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

I'd say working is more moral than going on welfare, and if I'd had the body for it, I'd have gone through school that way- as it was, I missed most of my daughter's childhood, and she was brought up in daycare.

I agree wholeheartedly. I'd venture to say any form of legal work is more "moral" than going on Welfare. Plus, I really have no problem with what strippers do for a living. Then again, I'm a libertine.