So this girl (has a little girl) posted a go fund me account asking for help with things like food. I made a donation. Here is one little thing that strikes me as odd. She also posted a link to a grocery shopping site that has nothing but very expensive organic stuff. If you were in dire straits, it seems like you would eat whatever people gave you. Organic stuff? I don't buy that stuff myself, it is like three times the price. Hmmm, Abner
Depends on your personal morals, I guess. If you believe that organic food is really important, you would (presumably) hold those beliefs no matter how much you make and want to feed such to your kid. OTH, if I was struggling to feed my daughter, I'd buy whatever nutritious food I could afford and worry about chemicals later. There's a balance between helping the deserving and imposing your beliefs on them that can be hard to define. We took in a "homeless" student because we felt for him. His parents had kicked him out for being trans. He'd been couch surfing for a couple years, and had been fired from one job for being trans (he said). After two months living with us, we ended up kicking him out ourselves. We had told him that he would need to be a serious student and work. Our thought was that by the end of the school year, he could save enough to afford to move in with roommates and transfer to the local public university. Reality was that he was taking only two art courses (so much for a full load), spending his food stamp money at Whole Foods, and had no intention of looking for work. We also found out he owned 3 XBoxes and scads of games, which was what he did with most of his time (to make matters worse, he did it in my living room even though he owned a TV (!) and he could have set it up in his bedroom). He also immediately became a troublemaker in the pride center at school, which was my son's haven there. Once we realized he was only homeless because he preferred mooching off of people to working and striving to get on his feet, we cut him loose. I suppose we were lucky that we didn't lose anything we couldn't afford to.
