From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@ricochet.net)
Date: Sat May 05 2001 - 10:55:56 MDT
At 07:54 AM 5/5/01 -0700, Mark Plus posted:
>From:
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/06/magazine/06POVERTY.html?pagewanted=all
>
>A Cure for Poverty
>
>By ANDREW SOLOMON
>Wendy was born just below the poverty line, where she spent the next 30
>years of her life. These were grim times for her. When she was 6, a disabled
>friend of her alcoholic grandmother began abusing her sexually....
>Her first boyfriend, from her neighborhood in the slums around Washington,
was
>physically and verbally brutal. After the birth of her first child, when she
>was 17, she managed to "escape from him, I don't know how." Not long after,
>Wendy, a petite African-American woman with grave eyes and a wide mouth, was
>raped by a family friend. Soon after that, under pressure from her family,
>she married a man who was also abusive. She had three more children by him
>in the next two years...
>At 28, she was responsible for 11 children...
You have to admire her biological fitness.
Whatever she's doing, however she's feeling, it's working. Evolution
in action.
Lee Corbin
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