This is unreal these teens shouldn't be taking care of kids. What do you expect when you live off the state. These children should be in a two parent home with jobs. Don't use your kids to make people feel sorry that you don't have enough food at the end of the month. You did no effort to take care of you or your child. And if you shopped in the store it would be cheaper. If you didn't purchase 400 dollars worth the groceries in one day you would have food at the end of the month. We don't even spend that much in a month for 4 people.

After my son graduated from high school, Burger King wouldn't even hire him. It took nine months of diligent job hunting before he got a job as a host in a restaurant paying minimum wage. The jobs are not there even for the ones who don't drop out.

Where's the fathers of all these children the mothers cannot clothe and feed without welfare? I had a minimum wage job working on a farm when my children were born. I payed the Dr and the Hospital for each delivery. Never received any welfare, food stamps, or relied on county supported doctors or hospitals to raise them. But my tax dollars are being used to support and house these families that choose to bring children into this world knowing they can not afford them. Ever hear of sterilization? Both mother and father that choose to bring children into this world that can not support the children should both be sterilized after the first child, not rewarded with a larger welfare paycheck for multiple children. These irresponsible parents should be held accountable, not sponging off my, as well as other tax payer's money.

We have generational poverty because we have generational welfare. We have generational welfare because we have generational high school dropouts. We have a child welfare system that's a total loss because the law doesn't allow them to intervene when parents refuse to provide and refuse to send their kids to school. Change the laws and start holding these lazy, uncaring parents ACCOUNTABLE for their laziness and indifference to education and SLOWLY the trend of generational poverty will turn it around. We also need more VOCATIONAL training. Bakersfield aint LA or SF. We are a blue collar economy here. Sending a welfare mom to college to get a 'liberal arts' degree is a waste of taxpayer money. Send them to school for 18 months to learn a trade that will ACTUALLY lead to employment. And if a parent just wants to sit on her #ss and not even go to school or work a burger flippin' job, cut her off EVERYTHING: free housing, mediCal, AND foodstamps. Time for these 40 year old GIRLS to grow up and provide. And if they don't-place the kids with an adult willing to do so. Foster care costs, true. But how does it compare to the welfare bucks we will be forking over to mom, then forking over to the next generation, and the next generation after that because each upcoming generation can't even SPELL the word W-O-R-K?