No flames from me either, but just because you are poor or the 'supposed underclass' of society, it's OK for you to live in squalor? NO! You can be poor and have a clean house, you can be poor and get your sorry *advertiser censored* up each morning and go WITH your children down to the food pantry to get food for your babies, you can be poor and go WITH your children down to Catholic charities to get free coats, You can be poor and show up at a homeless shelter WITH your children and say "I have no heat, my children are freezing, can we stay here?" Noone could turn you away with children. Think how much those kids would learn about helping other people if their mother or father had taught them those skills. OK kids, let's go to XYZ church to get our food for the month and we'll come back and decide what to cook, but instead, no some lazy stupid person just sits around and gets NO food for the babies, you can bet money the mother wasn't hungry. POVERTY is NO excuse for filth and mistreatment. Underclass or no class, people know right from wrong. It is wrong to beat your children, starve your children, let them freeze. Those things are just plain WRONG, there is no gray area here. Poor people are not prevented from knowing right from wrong.
I completely, do NOT have children if you cannot afford them, however, we know the reality is that there are many, many children out there that are already on this earth who belong to parents 'who cannot afford' to take care of them. Meaning they do NOT make enough money on their own. Here's a thought, those people need to get off their butts and take their children to the agencies that are all over this country to help people 'who cannot afford' their children.
So if 'I cannot afford' them, is it my right to just decide to NOT feed them, love them, hug them, and beat them? I think not. Parents who do NOT do the right thing, no matter what the reason should be held accountable, in this particular case, death penalty for both mother and boyfriend.
When did it become OK to be poor and automatically behave criminally?
I was poor growing up, my mom and dad never beat me, starved me, had no clothes for me, they loved me and did their absolute best, I was always loved, full and happy, even if I was poor. My room had to be cleaned, our house was clean, we went to church, school, played outside and we were still poor...