Still a child herself, she wanted to be with her friends, and rationalized that her children were taken care of by her grandparents. to 2:00 p.m.Д®ven for an adult, being a single mom is a chore, regardless of income or educational background. Candice was rarely home, even though her working hours were from 6:30 a.m. Her grandparents, who were living at the lower end of the middle class, were not able to handle the three children alone. When she was 18, she met an older man and thought she might have an opportunity to get some stability in her life, but all she got was pregnant again. She had the first baby when she was in her second year of high school and was pregnant from a different boy again before dropping out of school in her junior year. Like many 15 year-old girls, she had an interest in the boys and made some poor decisions. Her parents had divorced a few years earlier and she was living with her grandparents. Life began to unravel five years ago when she was a freshman in high school.

ItвЂ™s made even harder when mom is only 20 years-old herself, has no education and whoвЂ™s drug addiction behavior is starting to show. ItвЂ™s a difficult road to be on, with three children under the age of six. вЂњCandiceвЂќ never saw herself as a criminal, just somebody вЂњdoing what she had to do.вЂќ In a seemingly endless succession of measures to take the вЂњedgeвЂќ off of life, Candice tried to hold her life together by convincing herself that there was no foundational problem with using an illegal substance for helping her cope with the pressures of being a single mother of three and living well below the poverty line.

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