Something slightly annoying...

So I'm checking email tonight and I get on facebook to find that one of my "friends" has invited me to a group called 'The Rebecca Project for Human Rights'. Now I have no idea what this is, so I start reading the group page. Apparently, a group of people in society have decided to take pity on those incarcerated or addicted to drugs and who have children. In case you haven't noticed, I meant mothers.

Let me get this straight. A woman has children. She does drugs. She gets put in jail and I should feel bad for her? No, I feel bad for the children who are now in foster care. But not only that, I should apparently be voting for these same women to be taken out of jail, have their kids returned to them and then given food stamps and medicaid, and other benefits of my tax dollars. And yes, I do pay taxes out of my pay checks, so it is in fact my tax dollars.

No! This is ridiculous!

I had to leave a comment on this page. Some random girl said that most of the women addicted to drugs have been abused in their lifetimes. I'm sorry, you can't use that excuse. My mother, brother and I were all emotionally, physically, and/or sexually abused by my father and none of us are addicted to drugs. Not only that, I know for a fact that my mother has made $10 over what she needs to recieve foodstamps and is therefore denied government assistance. For ten dollars! And still, none of us are addicted to drugs. Furthermore, she had to fight to recieve medicaid assistance for being disabled and diabetic and blind! And now the richest, the whitest, and the "brightest" of our society wants me to just give these benefits, the benefits that people who need them aren't getting, to women who are addicted to drugs? I don't think so!

I don't care what doctors say. Addiction isn't a disease. It's a disorder, and moreso it becomes an excuse for behavior that isn't acceptable. Well I'm sorry. Children of drug addicted mothers belong in better homes where they actually have a chance at a real life and a real future instead of having to grow up taking care of their parents and facing the very real possibility of ending up just like them. And yes, that is exactly what the statistics show.