My geriatric mother won't raise teh babbiez April 17, 2014 | Registered: 11 years ago Posts: 272 |
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Stupid Cafemoo Twat
My sister is a single mom working two fast food jobs to support her two kids. She makes too little to pay for much, but too much to qualify for subsidized daycare or anything else. Because of this, my mom watches her kids while she works, which she openly complains about because she's 70 and watching a 6 and 3 year old 10+ hours a day, almost every day.
My sister just told her she's pregnant. My mom told her not to bother bringing the baby or any of the kids back for "free babysitting because you're too irresponsible to do anything right". She have my sister until next Friday to find care.
I live across the country with my husband or I would help in a heartbeat. She couldn't stop crying when she called me last night. She was hurt my mom reacted to her pregnancy like that, and she's scared to death about what to do with her babies. I tried to call my mom but she snapped "stay out of it" at me.
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crazy old crone
I'm sick of these implied immaculate conceptions too! Can't she sue some of these baby-daddies for support? You know there's got to be more than one, likely three. And getting prego when you already have two kids you can't support is supposed to be a celebration? Bringing another human into the world with a "Welcome, you're hopeless, sorry about your luck." really does suck!
How have we gotten to a point to where we believe that getting pregnant is always a cause for celebration? If this woman doesn't have an abortion, or give this one up for adoption, she's beyond ignorant. And to act like it is a 70 year old woman's responsibility to care for as many kyds as this irresponsible breeder wants to bring into the world is immoral.
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crazy old crone
I'm sick of these implied immaculate conceptions too! Can't she sue some of these baby-daddies for support? You know there's got to be more than one, likely three. And getting prego when you already have two kids you can't support is supposed to be a celebration? Bringing another human into the world with a "Welcome, you're hopeless, sorry about your luck." really does suck!
How have we gotten to a point to where we believe that getting pregnant is always a cause for celebration? If this woman doesn't have an abortion, or give this one up for adoption, she's beyond ignorant. And to act like it is a 70 year old woman's responsibility to care for as many kyds as this irresponsible breeder wants to bring into the world is immoral.
When I worked in the welfare office, we did actually go after the fathers of these kids for support. In most cases, they were unemployed, in jail, some were deceased due to criminal or drug activity, or working for low wages. We once had a case in which a mother was awarded $50/month and another $35/month for child support, because it is based on the father's income. Even though this was in the early 90s, even then, that wasn't much money. I also some that were $10/week and they were in arrears. Going after child support is politically popular, but it doesn't usually make much of a difference.
It's like George Carlin said, it's all about the fetus, once it's here, it's on its own.
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The troubling part is that a 70–year-old was watching two tots for so many hours per day.
My parents both died in their 60s. I have sincere doubts I'll see 70 myself because of issues hitting me now at age 50. Moo should have thanked her lucky stars she got the child care she did from her mother, instead of copping an attitude about her mother deciding enough was enough. By a simple twist of fate her mother might have been gone too.
But we've seen this entitlement mentality from breeders before. Some even think grandma should somehow be thankful to be able to spend so much (unpaid, of course) time with the grandsprogs. My brother's ex pulled that shit as our mother watched their daughter for over 50 hours a week. (Fortunately, he paid Mom for the care—but the ex certainly didn't want to.)
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I read in the comments that the pez-kid dispenser is 36. Damn, I understood the use of birth control in college, she is way behind on the IQ scale.
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what part of the comment is bothersome?
we all have legacies from our parents, some good, some bad.
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twocents
what part of the comment is bothersome?
we all have legacies from our parents, some good, some bad.
It isn't the comment itself or that you made it, both are fine.
It scares me in that I may not be long for this world or Bratfree. The likelyhood of me seeing retirement age is like me seeing lottery winnings. The end of the next decade will be the challange.
I rarely speak of this, as this would horrify my late sister's children. I am the last of that line, other than those two. This family, from that line, has been almost exclusively childfree. (I'm adopted, but my mind is of the line.) Their father's line of the family, I know little about although he does has a brother and a few nieces and nephiews about. I've an aunt and two cousins, but have no idea what happened to them as we lost touch, and no touch, no line.