There are some things Stephanie Everett never thought she’d be: a teenage mother, an abuse victim, a welfare recipient, homeless.
She became all of these things.
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There are some things Stephanie Everett never thought she’d be: a teenage mother, an abuse victim, a welfare recipient, homeless.
She became all of these things.
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After a lifetime of abuse I hope she is getting the help she needs to be able to function in the job she so obviously needs.
A stunning story - but what does "and ign stereotype of the welfare receipient" mean? Is it a typo, or is "ign" an adjective? - "I didn't think I was getting beat," Everett said in her office on a recent afternoon, shaking her head at the memory. "I just thought we were fighting. It took me a long time to realize I was an abused woman. I had become my mother." Defeated, she stopped working and studying, living up to the easy — and ign stereotype of the welfare recipient who isn't trying.
Seems to me she's doing very well and knows her job very,very well.In other words, she's competent and got the help she needed when she needed it. That help, by the way, would never have been available if rightwingers had their way.
Congratulations to Stephanie and well done. But please don't try to rationalize the millions of dollars wasted on these programs. These people that think these programs up, are like Father Flanagan, 'There is no such thing as a bad boy'. Well there are bad people and there are people that can't be helped. Noe of this detracts from Stephanie's accomplishments, and again WELL DONE.