I came across this on CNN and couldn't help myself. I can understand homes for the elderly where they can retire to and have care, food, and assistance, but never have I heard or seen a home for retired prostitutes.
I watched the news clip and almost fell out of my chair laughing when it stated they had nothing but "dignity" left after working into what I would estimate to be her 70's as a flesh peddler. I'm not sure how there could be a lot of dignity left when she had to use only 1st floor hotel rooms because of her walker. I know, harsh, I should be more compassionate towards a woman who was working the streets at her age. I agree, I should, but I'm more bothered by the possibility that this woman most likely has kids and grand kids who are not stepping up to aid and support her.
My mom is a single mother struggling at 44 to raise my 4 year old brother. I'm not in a position to provide her with much assistance as I am a single dad who is raising two kids of my own, but there is absolutely no fathomable way that I could ever allow my mother to be in that position. She lives in an apartment in Illinois, I'm here in Texas, but you can bet if things get much tougher for her, I'll be moving her down here to live with me so she can get ahead.
Families struggle every day and it's not always easy to help the ones we love. Sometimes there is just not the money to do it, but can it not be reduced from currency to aid very easily? For my mom to move in with me would slightly alter my living expenses, but not to the extreme that she would have to turn to moral turpitude to survive. I'm coming to a loss for words over the seventy year old prostitute with a walker.
The housing is government provided, how does that fit in well in an under-developed county that could easily use that funding to aid other social development programs?
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