Someone asked today...how are people coping with financial concerns...

[Horse with no Name]

Desperate people do desperate things. Get ready for more of it.
:cry:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/053007dnmetweatherford.2017296d.html
>>>snip
HUDSON OAKS – Gilberta Estrada struggled as a single mother, confiding to friends about child custody concerns and money troubles as she tried to raise her four young daughters on wages from Wendy's.

Family and friends said the 25-year-old immigrant from Tamaulipas, Mexico, received no child support, had no medical insurance and had been denied Medicaid benefits more than once. And court records say she may have been a victim of domestic violence.

But family and investigators are still at a loss to explain what led Ms. Estrada to loop strips of clothing and scarves around her daughters' necks and then around the clothes rod of a cramped closet near dawn Tuesday in the Parker County town of Hudson Oaks. The single mother was found hanged next to the girls, ages 5, 3, 2 and 8 months.

Only the baby survived.

[karlrschneider]

1. Sometimes "end of the rope" becomes reality.

Such a waste.

[GrumpyGreg]

2. Birth control would have helped. Sad !

[parasim]

3. Sad? Yes. But being born did not kill those 3 kids.

Poverty, desperation, hopelessness. That's what killed those three kids and their mother.

[Bozita]

4. amen!

[Horse with no Name]

6. Thanks for the reasoned answer

I literally logged off so I didn't respond to that crap answer.

[Shine]

5. Heartbreaking, to be sure.

:(