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Originally Posted by dannic  "It's more labor intensive than caring for a newborn--and with a newborn you have the expectation that the child will grow and become more independent." EXACTLY, and that makes it harder... as anyone with kids know, the kids stop taking naps.. So you live on even less sleep.. However once again it is doing what needs to be done...
Im sorry but even if her husband works 12 hour days, she could still work for a few hours at night when he comes home...
Perhaps I was raised differently... if your child needs something you work to provide it for them... you dont ask anyone to take care of your child... Sick or not... |
God help you if you or yours should ever need assistance.
Or should you ever NOT be able to provide for your children.
I, personnally, have been extremely fortunate to have healthy children. We have struggled at times to take care of the basic necessities. We were fortunate in that we had a huge support network to help when we had crisis--both w/ money and time. However, having seen the struggles that my family member has gone through w/ their son--I can honestly say that the assistance system is far from being a good working model.
I am appalled and saddened that some people here think it's ok for a mother to want to know why some get help, but she can't (from the govt.)
Why don't some of you volunteer to provide 24 hour care for a disabled child or parent? Let's see how much work you can do, when you aren't feeding them, changing them, taking them to Drs. appts. Let's see how distraught and completely at your wits end you get after one week!
It's not about wanting something for nothing. It really isn't!
ETA: it seems that some people forget compassion. We would all do well to remember "There but for the Grace of God, Go I". One catastrophic illness or accident, and any one of us could be in the same boat as the OP.