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Within 2 years of her birth, I was moving into my new home, driving a new vehicle with an excess in the bank (not huge, but helpful).
It is impossible to go back in time to replay different scenarios, but you have to wonder if you would have been able to make that turn around having to care for both of your children.
My husband and I have seen our share of hard financial times, but thankfully we could see the end of the tunnel. We both had college degrees and family to help. I can imagine some of these girls have no idea if there is an end to the tunnel, let alone being able to see it.
I personally feel that you do not need material things to "be a mommy" but you do need the resources to care for a child, and most of those things happen to be material...food, clothing, housing, transportation. It is sad that in America people do not have these things, the basic things in life.
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