I recently went to a 50th birthday party for a friends' mother. I did the math, and I realized that this woman had had 3 of her four children before she turned 23 years old.
I have no idea how she did it, and I've never asked. But my friend is an incredibly successful dentist (and thus highly educated) and her sister is a commercial pilot. Their two brothers are both in school. . .one is studying fashion design in Paris.
When I was at this women's 50th birthday party, I thought about how much crap she must have taken from people who believed that she was wrecking her children's life. . .she was a young, uneducated woman who was raising these children from scratch, with little support. But she made it. And in the process raised some of the most amazing people I've ever met.
You can never tell about people. . .
Two things:
First off, I don't believe that hard-working people should feel ashamed to accept help. And all a WIC program is is a program to help people who need it. If it is helping a woman raise and feed her child, no one, NO ONE should make a person feel bad for taking advantage of it (or any other government assistance program, as far as I'm concerned). A woman would be a fool not to.
Second of all, I don't understand the instinct to fall into the "it's a shame that some women can't have children while others have more than they can afford" mode of thinking. Yes it is, but everyone, the childless and the child-full have to come to grips with the circumstances that God gave them.
Third of all, (oops, I guess there was a third) and this is not addressed to anyone in particular, if someone shouldn't say they are uncomfortable killing their child because someone else might feel bad because they may have had an abortion, then it is also not okay to openly judge someone for accepting public assistance. There are plenty of people on these boards and off that have likely benefitted from such a program, and why single out some to be exempt from judgement, and not others?
Sorry y'all, but some of the reactions to this thread are really bugging me.
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