Not a total tragedy for this girl, with the support that seems to be rallying 'round, but what if her mom hadn't come back around? She's got a job that pays $10/hr - she works for her mom. She's got a beautiful place to live, where she pays a pittance of rent - to mom. The baby's paternal grandma is providing the daycare during school hours, and baby will come to work with mom & grandma. We all could survive if given that much help, ya know? (and maybe the world would be a lovelier place for it).
It's just hard, knowing she didn't have to be doing this right now. But she had an unreliable role model in a mom who seems to believe her worth is tied up in her relationship with a man, and who thought the way to keep her daughter safe was to make her believe she was too ugly to get a guy. So K was always desperate to keep the daddy's affection, and cut out all her friends he didn't get along with or thought she spent too much time with, until the only people influencing her decisions at all were mom and boyfriend. It just sucks.
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It's just hard, knowing she didn't have to be doing this right now. But she had an unreliable role model in a mom who seems to believe her worth is tied up in her relationship with a man, and who thought the way to keep her daughter safe was to make her believe she was too ugly to get a guy. So K was always desperate to keep the daddy's affection, and cut out all her friends he didn't get along with or thought she spent too much time with, until the only people influencing her decisions at all were mom and boyfriend. It just sucks.