Humans on Welfare Society

I am a single mother of a beautiful little girl. When my daughter was first born I did not have enough hours to take a company maternity leave. I tried to find any way to stay home with my daughter for her first year. I talked to a dozen social workers with welfare and each one told me, " I'm sorry we can't help you, but our services are only for adults 18+. Maybe you should try child services." So I talked to a bunch of people with child services and they all told me that because I was a mother, the government no longer classified me as a child. They could give me no help. What kind of world do we live in where the government will help support people who are more than capable of working and yet they offer no support to underaged mothers who have a child/children to take care of. I ended up going back to work when my little one was six weeks old. When she was eleven months old, I was laid off along with twenty other workers from the warehouse I was employed at. Once again I had to find a way to support my family and I was having a very hard time finding a new job due to the reccession. And once again financial aid corporations told me there was nothing they could do as I had still not reached the age of eighteen. Being a young single mother I know over one hundred young woman, struggling to raise their families with no help from anyone. If the government will pay for someone in their twenties to take a one year maternity leave, do these young woman too deserve the right of watching their child grow. Working when my daughter was very young meant a lot of time away. It made it almost impossible to breast feed, I missed a lot of bonding time, and there were even things my daughter could do like clap her hands and words she could say that I had never heard until I was laid off. These children are our future and especially because the rate of teen mothers is growing rapidly, need to be properly brought up. This cannot be done if their mothers are working twelve hour days, six days a week to make sure there is food in their fridge and a roof over their heads.. Get my point. People out there who are of age, and who can have a voice in their community need to speak of for these girls. Help find a way to make a social assistance program for young mothers say aged fifteen and up. Speak for those who dont have a voice!!!!