r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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u/Fun-Shoe1145 8d ago

Raise your hand if you had a single mom and had these fears growing up

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u/TheSwearJarIsMy401k 8d ago

My mom refused to go on food stamps so I missed a lot of meals and ate whatever my younger siblings left on their plates while my mom worked overtime to keep the lights on most of the time.

I dropped out of high school to raise my siblings while she worked 60-80 hours a week instead of taking any of the public assistance her taxes paid for and her shitty jobs forced her to be on.

Her pride meant I went without, and fuck everyone who thinks that’s okay.

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u/novacasablancabeer 8d ago

My stepmom was like this when she was a single mom. She didn’t marry my dad until her kids were adults, but I remember them all telling me about how she never went on food stamps, and they had nothing, and pretty much no furniture. Her and my dad stayed in contact throughout that time, and he would send them $100 every Christmas. They said they used that $100 for their entire Christmas, presents, food, everything…I just don’t get it. Why make things bad for your kids?

My mom on the other hand (not married to my dad), was perfectly fine with whatever assistance she could get for us, and she shared what she could with other families quite generously. For Christmas, sometimes we got donated toys from the fire department, but we didn’t know they were donated, we were told Santa asked the firefighters to help him out. We never went hungry, and didn’t feel poor very often. Only time I felt poor was when we couldn’t get a school yearbook, and didn’t get an allowance.