NYTs: To My Newspaper Buddies, The Sad Story Of Poor Women In Trouble.

Update 8/18
 OK, so you want me to give you my big picture on it all? We don't make life compelling, interesting and worthwhile for the bottom half. Not enough people think life is worthwhile... If you think this thing is money you are crazier than me. Most people think  life is nothing but a grueling journey to nowhere.  That is why we are into all these titillating superficial and temporary pleasures of money, drugs, alcohol and cigarettes, food addictions, worthless temporary thrills,  arrant agendas of no worth to fill up our lives and the grossly expensive citadels of bling. expensive cloths, cars, macmansion and artificial excitement to no ends. It like we are all putting our neurons in a  continuous haze titillation and diversion. We are the la, la, la, la generation till death. The more we build up these citadels of materialism and it doesn't, we work like slaves more, then double up on more materialism to bolster our poor self esteem and confidence. Why isn't life enough?   

How many generations of children pays the price for one mother in trouble?

How does this all play out for the heroin Mothers and children of today?

Number of Women in Jail Has Grown Far Faster Than That of Men, Study Says

When Dolfinette Martin was convicted of shoplifting more than $700 worth of clothes in Louisiana in 2005, she had five children, no money and an addiction to cocaine.

Seven years later, in 2012, Ms. Martin became one of a growing number of impoverished women released from prisons and jails whose plight has been largely overlooked during continuing efforts to reverse mass incarceration, according to criminal justice experts.

“That cycle of poverty — not a lot of resources, not a lot of jobs, the lack of education, you kind of give up,” said Ms. Martin, 46, who now works as an administrative assistant.

*And the most common offenses that led to arrests involved drugs...