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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has anyone actually read the book? Stephanie Land made a lot of bad choices that are not shown on the tv show.

1. Deciding to have a baby with no real job, savings, OR a boyfriend with a real job (and the kicker is, she was 29 in real life, not early twenties like the show so she should have had a better job or savings. She was plenty old enough to know better).

2. When she got a tax refund, instead of using the money to move her daughter out of the moldy apartment that she knew was making her sick, she bought herself a $200 diamond ring as some type of whacky promise to herself and a solo vacation.

3. After she and the daughter moved to Montana, she got knocked up again and decided to have the baby by herself AGAIN! Slid right back into poverty.[/quote]

I’ve read the book but not watched the show. Honestly, I almost stopped reading when she described accidentally getting pregnant. Her boyfriend was very clear that he did NOT want the child. She was very clear that she was not against abortion, but her choice was to skip college and have the baby. I get that poverty is a mindset, but this one decision set her up to fail. And as you said, she was not that young when she made this choice.[/quote]

Maybe she didn’t want to risk going through a bajillion rounds of IVF 5+ years later like so many wise women? I had my kid at 34 fwiw, but can understand her sentiment. 
But she should have stopped at one![/quote]

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