Quit having kids, you're wasting my money!
A post is made to

bad_service in which a mother with WIC vouchers and several kids was insulted to her face and behind her back by a clerk. While most people seem to agree that this is bad service, about half the commentors are also quick to tell the OP that she's brought it all on herself and to either quit whining or quit popping out babies she can't afford. 123 comments of "My thoughts on having kids" and growing.

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penguinfaery
2007-06-10 08:18 pm UTC (link)

Ok, once again, the pregger thing was NOT about the OP. I was saying her post, because of her attitude, and the way it was worded, SEEMED like the post of one of those woman. And THAT was what people ressponded to. Because that's a really shitty thing to do, and people do do it, and her post didn't SEEM to be missing any information until you got the information it was missing. It SEEMED like she had all the information.

I didn't assume that was the situation. Because I read the bit where she explined that bad times hit, and after this one she's getting her tubes tied.

BUT her post, without that back information, seem like the post of that kind, and didn't seem to be missing any information. Why would we assume? Her attitude. Which, by the way, she herself admitted to (Via her friend) was not what she meant. There didn't SEEM to be an absense of information. She exaplined her whole family, why they were on welfare, etc, and the way it was worded, it seemed like birthcontrol had failed 4 times.

Why not make the assumption that she didn't have access to birth control, or that it failed, or she was someone whose religious beliefs forbid the use of contraceptives or abortion

Because we didn't have to assume, she said she used Birth control and that it failed but that it was ok because she wanted a big family. Which would be fine, but the way the post was worded, it seemed like that was the case with all 4 (As oppose to just the last, which was the case). Which ISN'T ok. (And would also be pretty statically impossible, to have birthcontrol fail 4 times)

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