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Originally Posted by Kevin
She turned down the child support, so I guess she's at least partially at fault, yes? Also, could she not have tried to find a better job?
Credit cards are not a must, but a bank account/debit card? Not too hard to come by. Yes, if you write hot checks, that could become a problem, but writing hot checks is pure mismanagement, don't you think?
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Yes, that's why I clarified it about the child support. But the point is, your original comment seemed a bit "you mismanaged so suck it, idiot". I was pointing out that it's not always over-spending for the hell of it.
And she acutally had a good job. But considering she had never had to put her college degree to use becuase she and dad married right after college - as was the norm in those days - you can't exactly walk into Goldman and say "Hey, I'm a smart person with a college degree. Hire me for 100K a year". Seriously, that was a dumb comment.
And thanks, 33, for realizing that debit cards did not exist when I was growing up. And, Kevin, my mother did have a checking account (her good job was at a bank actually), but at that time a lot of places refused to take a check if you didn't have a credit card.
And whoever said, "Can't you just move to where things are better?" Another dumb comment. If you don't have a decent amount of money coming in, how the hell are you supposed to pack up all your stuff and haul to somewhere new? It takes money to put down for rent and things like that.
Seriosuly people, there are people in the world who don't have an upper middle-class influx of cash coming in. Things aren't always as simple, or easy, as your life is.
