Single Mother of 5 Faces Jail Time After She Left 4-Year-Old Son with Her 14-Year-Old Daughter because She Had to Work - Detroit Daily News

Single mother of 5 faces jail time after she left 4-year-old son with her 14-year-old daughter because she had to work - Detroit Daily News

If you’re a parent then the chances are high that you’ll be no stranger to stress, nor to cutting corners in a bid to make ends meet.No mother or father is perfect. We all make mistakes along the way – put simply, that’s part of the process that is parenthood. And yet one single mother of five from Georgia is apparently facing jail time for doing something that I’m fairly certain others are guilty of. Unsurprisingly, her case is diving opinion o…

33-year-old mom forces her 14-year-old insomniac sister to watch her 3-month-old baby at home alone while she works all day: 'Both my parents work, so I’m left alone with the baby for hours almost every day.'

Many families cannot afford to take care of their young children without working, nor can they afford to pay someone to do it for them. They need to work, and they need someone else to watch their baby all day for free, otherwise they won't have enough money to live. Kids don't spend their childhoods at grandma's house because their mom thinks that it will be a valuable bonding experience between grandmother and grandchild; kids spend time at gr…