Mother: I Need My Job More Than I Need My Child

I’ve given self-centered parents a hard time at Dakota Voice, but I think this story takes the cake.

According to this report, a woman named Blanca Rosales in New Mexico (who only sees her daughter about an hour a day as it is) says she wants someone to take her 9-year-old daughter off her hands. Apparently she needs her job more than she needs her daughter.

With a mother like this, I’m pretty sure the girl would be better off somewhere else, anyway.

Viewers of the story that ran on local television pointed out that if it’s “so hard to make it” for this woman, why does she have a TV, a laptop, and painted nails? Well, a woman has to have priorities, after all, right?

What happened to parents sacrificing for their children? What happened to the “natural affection” the Bible talks about which leads a parent to put their children before anything: career, education, a new boat, going out to party, a new car, a new cell phone, a new plasma TV…or a job?

“People think I’m giving her up because I can’t take care of her. I’ve taken care of her, but right it’s just come to where I need my job more than I need my child.”

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