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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The story says the mom was going to the laundromat. You can't afford to raise 8 kids by 35 yrs if you can't afford a place without a washer dryer in the unit or building. Incredibly irresponsible to just have kids like that. [/quote]

Because that's the story -- what a bad mother she was, to have children even though she didn't have a washing machine and dryer in the building? Really?[/quote]

Yes, really. It's not just the w/d. If you have to go to the laundromat every weekend it probably means you don't have much disposable income. After I had a child I realized how much money it takes to provide quality care for her and be in a not so bad school district, and provide optional things like extracurricular activities. 
Bringing home the baby from the hospital you start with a car seat, crib. If you work, quality daycare (some of those lower end in home daycares made me really uncomfirtable but even those were  800/month). Even if the child has no crib they need some space to sleep. Fresh food, even cheap target diapers are 15 cents apiece,  activities, roach free home, safer neighborhood, the list just goes on. I was a SAHM once and I know how hard it is just to spend a lot of quality time with 1 or 2 kids. Just the time you spend trying to feed them and bathe them and do those types of survival things takes hours with babies and toddlers. Older children will have their own needs and need your attention and sometimes need to be dropped off and picked up etc. 8? Come on. Do you think all this mom needs is love to care for these children? You are kidding yourself if this single mom's kids were not shortchanged in many different ways, also with tangible and intangible things. [/quote]

So you feel bad for the mom of 2 who died, but not the mom of 8, because she was irresponsible in having 8 kids. But probably the mom of 2 kids shouldn't have had even 2, because she was at the Laundromat also? I'm not following your logic on this, I think you need to explain it further. In fact, let's also bring in another mom of 5 or 6 kids who died when a tree fell on her car a few years ago (one of her daughters died also). Was she irresponsible for having so many kids? She was white and lived in Bethesda, so probably not, because she wasn't out at a Laundromat.

These poor women were out running errands, minding their own business, not hurting anyone, and they were killed, and their 10 children will suffer because of it. There's nothing else that needs to be said, and no judgment needs to be passed. If they'd had 0 kids, it would still be a horrible tragedy, because the accident was completely senseless and not their fault at all.[/quote]

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