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Today’s Parenting Challenges

December 2, 2022

Town:

Milltown

County:

Middlesex

CAF Theme:

Financial Security & Early Childhood Success

Topic Raised:

Motherhood

Demographic:

Mothers

Transcript

The problem is the fact that like… I'm not even gonna call it lying, I'm just gonna say like, we have to bend the rules in order to survive. And this is just on a working level, you know. And if you get caught, you have to worry about if you get caught, things are gonna be taken away, it's gonna go on your record and all of this. But there's no other way to survive. Other than bending the rules. 

I think that's why a lot of people have to lie about certain things just to get accepted. And I used to try to apply for Section 8. That takes years.


And so when the kids go to school, you'd have to worry about are you in the right district in order for your kid to go to perfect school? Or do you have to live at your address, to send them to a better school. And it's just, it's so much headache to be a parent, when it shouldn't be all you have to worry about is that health and well-being of your kids. But now it's like the well-being, the safety, the security – it’s way bigger than it's supposed to be. I should have to worry about if my baby's gonna get his fingers stuck in a socket. Not like if we're gonna have food on the table all the time, or will I have childcare? Should I leave my baby with someone so that I can do work so I can afford to live?

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