Adopt a Family

[Popeye_Card]

OK, I'm a generous guy and all, but here's the scoop:

“Mother X is a 27 year old, pregnant mother of six. She is a good mother with limited resources. She had to send the children back to school this fall all needing uniforms for school. She just recently was able to get her electricity back on and is thankful for that. The family’s case worker says that Mother X and her family would be grateful for the support. She has four daughters, 12, 10, 7 and 2 and two sons 6 and 4 and one baby on the way.”

How's about I give you a box of condoms?

[clevername]

preach it.

[tothebeach08]

She was 15 when she had her first baby. Think she ever has had any positive influence or role model in her life. Or anyone to teach her that the word NO exists. Then she had two kids by the time she was 17, education was over by then if it wasn't before. I feel sorry for people who get in this cycle and you know chances are that her daughters will continue the cycle too. Education and strong family is the key, she was missing (probably) both of these.

[obucard]

She was 15 when she had her first baby. Think she ever has had any positive influence or role model in her life. Or anyone to teach her that the word NO exists. Then she had two kids by the time she was 17, education was over by then if it wasn't before. I feel sorry for people who get in this cycle and you know chances are that her daughters will continue the cycle too. Education and strong family is the key, she was missing (probably) both of these.

Sympathy can only go so far. She was stretching it by child #4, much less by child #7.

[InvincibleCakeEater]

Well, she's either a slut or Catholic.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

Well, she's either a slut or Catholic.

Both?

[Jocephus]

a box of body condoms

[Spider John]

We did the Adopt-a-Family deal a couple of years ago. We delivered the packages to the family ourselves, a single mother with a couple of kids. Turns out that this girl was living in a nice mobile home right next door to her parent's house, a house that appeared to be larger than ours. The cars in the driveway were nicer and newer than ours. The girl was at her parents when we pulled up, so she hollered for us to come over there. When we take the gifts to the door I look inside and see a large screen TV, and nice furnishings. It was obvious that they weren't struggling, and I doubt that their daughter was either.


I'm not saying that anyone shouldn't participate in these programs, because there are those who are really in need, but hopefully they have a good screening process. And yes, some of these people have problems because other own bad decisions. It's too bad that the children are the ones to suffer.