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I am in the same place as you are. Im 24 and 25 weeks pregnant. The father is here but I cant really depend on him for anything anymore! I had a good job but when I was three months pregnant the fired me. When I tried to get unemployment my ex employer worded things in a negative way so my claim was denied. So I've tried to find a job but no one really wants to hire a pregnant woman. I figure I ve paid my taxes and thats what the aids for so just do whats right for you and your baby.

getting on welfare is not a bad idea to all who think, so what about people who are trying to finish school, it is a good program, i mean i am not on itor anything but i have heard about it and it is a help, to me i am a full time student and it surly is better then working. and besides who wants to work

Income tax, property tax, sales tax......the govt. taxes everything. I have a good accountant. Yuo can't really say anything about how much I paid when You don't know how much I made.

Alisha... what does it matter? The point everyone's trying to get across to you is that the majority of your check does NOT go towards welfare... and nobody here has any control over who gets taxed for what.. and the majority of us get taxed for the same things that you do... so I suggest you quit complaining and just deal with it.

My answer to the question: I hear there are places to go for things like free diapers and that kind of thing ike that from the handouts and books my OB-GYN gave me the first time I went to the office pregnant. I do know food stamps, WIC, and those kind of things are available for you and the baby and they give all kinds of free lessons (breathing correctly, b___st pump cla__ses, etc) as well as free clinics if you need it. MY response to the rest of the posters: I am 20 years old. I have been taking care of a family since I was 12. My parents left, and when my grandparents got too old and I still had siblings, I stepped up to bat. When my siblings who were younger than me were having kids themselves, I stepped up to bat. When my friends got kids and said they were going to keep them, I was the first to say you don't know what you're doing, it's a huge task and you're doing it for the wrong reasons (she had lied to him about being on the pill... twice, and he was marrying her and raising the family). When I met my husband, this wonderful man whom I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with, and we found out that I had conceived his child, we were ecstatic. When we found out it was a high risk pregnancy, and that I'd have to stay home with him, quit my job, and be with my son, I was worried. I'm now myself trying to get set up on welfare for the health of my unborn son and find a cheaper car. So, to all you moms out there who say to wait until your financially stable and blah blah blah, shut up. Anything can and will go wrong and you will think you've "got this down" and you don't "got this down". I've raised more kids than years I've been alive, I did it all by myself, but now I've got my own family and my own child and my own husband to think about, suddenly everything I do effects 3 people directly. Am I gonna try and collect welfare to try and ensure that I'll be able to give my son the food and safety he needs in this world where the only thing I'm sure of is that if I wake up tomorrow I'll still be a woman? You bet I am. To the single moms out there who have the slightly greater piece of mind that "at least I'm not effecting 3 people" but the added stress that "everything I do is doubly important because it's just me here": you go girls. You do everything you think you can to protect that baby, and don't let these idealistic idiots try and tell you their way is better than your way just because they've never been there.

I think Brongaene couldn't have said it any better so sad and so TRUE!!!