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BoyMom21
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Tell us how you REALLY feel.
A girl I went to high school with just posted this:
"The welfare system makes me SICK. Anyone on it makes me SICK (who have working arms and legs). Unemployed and uneducated people, please do us a favor and do NOT vote for the presidential election this year."
Re: Tell us how you REALLY feel.
See, the thing is, even when it is being abused, it can help give their kids a chance. My mom definitely abused the welfare system, but without it I would have just had less of a chance. It's not like she would have quit buying drugs or gambling and started magically managing money like a responsible adult. So yeah, she abused it and I got to stay in school instead of dropping out to help pay bills (which my older sister nearly had to do). Best case scenario, I think we would have ended up wards of the state (at a much, much greater cost to taxpayer dollars).
I don't think many people realize how disproportionately poverty affects children. In the 2010 Census, children made up 24% of the total population but 36% of the population living in poverty. I am willing to accept some abuse of the system in order to give those kids (like Wendy) a chance to break the cycle of poverty.