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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a super liberal. This seems like a sad tragedy, and there may be understandable (though not excusable) reasons the mom wasn't home. Perhaps not, too.

One way or another though this mother had more children than she could care for well. [b]And it is frustrating that people don't stop having children when they are struggling to care for the ones they have.[/b] Being poor doesn't mean everything in life is out of your hands. I wouldn't even argue a poor person shouldn't have children, but I do think the number of kids she had and the conditions they were all living in suggests a reluctance to take appropriate responsibility for herself/life.

When people insist that a person should be exempt from criticism for certain life choices they've made because they are poor and black, that in and of itself is racist and patronizing. Young, poor, black women can make good choices for themselves, but this person didn't. (and lots of young, poor, white women make bad choices too...and rich white women...just in this case this person was black, and I think the unwillingness to hold her at all responsible for her life is it's own form of prejudice).[/quote]

Right...because she had access to free, perfect means of birth control.  And abortion on demand.[/quote]

She did, actually.  It is called abstinence.  Or, as my mother might call it, keeping your damned legs closed. Free, respectable, and 100% effective (i.e. perfect).  
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