I wasn't going to wade into these murky waters again...because it's like swimming upstream sometimes. People are set in their ways of seeing things and it is very difficult to change their minds...even through intelligent factual debate. We all make judegments...even those of us who think we are open-minded. But we should all be open to looking at things from another perspective...seeing things through another's eyes. We don't know what led up to that mother sitting and smoking at the park while talking about assistance on her iPhone. We don't know if she is mentally or physically ill, if she has been abused, if she was a foster child, if she had an abusive husband or father or mother for that matter, etc. Do any of these things mean she could not go on to lead a productive life? No...but the thing is, we don't know at what point in her life we have found her...we don't know ANYTHING about her. I would like to think that if my life ever crumbles around me and I find myself down in the dumps (it can happen to the best of us by the way) that I will have a system there to help me out and that I won't be judged left right and centre by self-rightous individuals who think this could never happen to them and that somehow it is my fault no matter what.