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Deliberately drinking to harm unborn baby.

G.K View Member Profile	07/01/2013, 05:09 PM Post #1
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QUOTE Pregnant South African women are deliberately drinking large quantities of alcohol to harm their unborn babies in a bid to earn more welfare money. The mothers, who are living in the Eastern Cape - one of the poorest areas in South Africa - binge drink to claim a disability benefit from the government before using their disabled children as a source of income. Link Just horrible. Those poor kids, denied a normal life because mum needed more dole money.

Stellajoy View Member Profile	07/01/2013, 05:09 PM Post #2
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Walk a mile in their shoes before you judge

Guest_Maybelle_*	07/01/2013, 05:10 PM Post #3


Poor women too.

Swahili View Member Profile	07/01/2013, 05:12 PM Post #4
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Women generally don't make those kinds of choices because they are in a good place.

Missy Shelby View Member Profile	07/01/2013, 05:12 PM Post #5
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QUOTE (Stellajoy @ 07/01/2013, 06:09 PM) Walk a mile in their shoes before you judge There are many people all over the world that are in extreme circumstances and extreme poverty and do not resort to deliberately disabling their unborn child.

Escapin View Member Profile	07/01/2013, 05:13 PM Post #6
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Absolutely horrible. Imagine how desperate you'd have to be to think that was a good idea.

MaeGlyn View Member Profile	07/01/2013, 05:16 PM Post #7
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That is awful. You do not have to be in someone's shoes to say abuse is not ok. As someone who has walked in my shoes as a victim of abuse from a mother and a father and ended up with a life long disability, people don't have to walk in my shoes to agree with a wrong. That is a very co-dependent view actually to say you have to walk in someones shoes to not agree with something. This post has been edited by MaeGlyn: 07/01/2013, 05:17 PM

~sydblue~ View Member Profile	07/01/2013, 05:16 PM Post #8
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QUOTE (Escapin @ 07/01/2013, 06:13 PM) Absolutely horrible. Imagine how desperate you'd have to be to think that was a good idea. Exactly what I was thinking. For some it may be the only way of feeding the other children they already have.

Mousky View Member Profile	07/01/2013, 05:19 PM Post #9
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QUOTE (Stellajoy @ 07/01/2013, 06:09 PM) Walk a mile in their shoes before you judge Yeah. I don't think so. It takes a certain sort of person to DELIBERATELY disable their child so they can get money, and I'm NOT AND NEVER WILL be one of them, no matter how poor I become. I also take it the money never goes to the actual child for actual therapy/medical care. This is disgusting and innexcusible, I actually saw the program.

MakeLoveNotBacon View Member Profile	07/01/2013, 05:20 PM Post #10
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I think it's a case of "poor" everyone - mother, child, community. Desperate poverty. No way I could sit in judgement.

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