I'm just going to assume that you don't have any personal firsthand experience with the system .

I'm going to trust the judgment of the struggling single mother, there's probably a good reason she's not collecting child support right now.

This website has a tendency of attracting upper middle class people, and the vast majority of you have just world theory. You think things are much more fair than they really are.

I will agree that this is irresponsible journalism, unless they paid her a significant amount of money, the potential downsides of exposing her situation outweigh any benefits.

A social worker can easily make a case for sending the kids to foster care from an article like this.

Even just getting CPS to leave her alone might be a difficult process