No purple they are not lucky they have reduced life expectancy, they have poor quality of life, poor social interaction, they experience little of the richness imparted in ones life by a good education and the ability to truly marvel and wonder at the beauty of life.

Their children often have the same limited chances in life and thus repeat the cycle.

A life permanently on social security is not a fulfilled life, neither for the woman or her children or for the men in these woman's lives.

On the topic of this thread where the OP is so ready to condem this lady, let me tell you a story of an old gentleman who fought in the second world war.

In the late 80's a good friend of mine who worked in the social services asked me and a friend to help him clean up a flat lived in by an old gentleman in his late 60's at that time, Kenny had to recommend that this old man be moved out and into care.

Kenny my friend and I went into that one room flat, it was 3 ft deep in newspapers, food trash, toilet paper, you name it, it was there. He had kept some animals as well and there was a lot of around, human as well as animal, I have never seen anything like it.

This was one of our countries hero's arguably let down by the system but never the less, a once upon a time good man who doubtless had a life and family and friends, he was living in something that makes the photos in that article look like a fricking palace, yet the OP see's fit to call a fellow human being a "feral piece of trash"?

Should I use that phrase about the old gent that occupied that flat I helped clean out? He wasn't crazy or suffering altzheimers, he was just an old bloke that didn't know how to do the basics and who got to the point that he was able tolerate his own housekeeping problems and he let it go on for years and years and years.