My impression is that these people were basically squatting/homeless because of extreme poverty that most people can’t relate to. People think they can, but that’s most likely the self righteousness talking. These women, children, and pets were all suffering terribly and were still trying- even in the face of what…

Yep, that <$80 one-time cost for a tool that allows them to communicate with employers and coordinate child care would have been better spent in a single day for food for 20 kids.

Right? They should be wearing potato sacks and talking on tin can phones!

Yes, poor people often have the nerve to have cell phones these days. Which has nothing to do with how they treated their kids.

Did the mom at least give the new kid a chance? Maybe he was much better than her own kid! Upgrades!