I am writing to you because I was looking at the websites that offer help to single moms and I came across your website and couldn't believe what I was reading. It was like God was answering my prayers. I have twin 5 year old girls and their father and I split up about 18 months ago. Since then, I have done everything to keep going and keep my head above water, and it has been quite a job. I have been trying to get child support for the 18 months since we split up with no luck so far. We actually split up in March of 2004 and I had to go to the Judge and take out a TPR (Temporary Protection Order) on him for being violent and also because he took my children at 3:00 am one morning and left and went to his family's in Macon, Ga. and although he is their father, we were never married and he by law has no rights to take my kids and leave with them like that' much less in the middle of the night, during a violent fight like that. So the judge ordered that he bring my kids back and start paying child support. Well, he did get the girls back to me as ordered, but he never was served the order and he didn't show up for court and it all seemed to get swept under the rug. But I still pushed for the child support and after a year and a half passed they finally served him the papers from CSR (Child Support Recovery) and he went to court in the beginning of July and the court ordered a paternity test, which the girls went for on August 11th and then we will get the results in 30 to 60 days and then he will be set up for child support payments. And hopefully it will be a little better with some extra money coming in. But for right now it is quite a challenge making ends meet. I am currently past due on my electric/gas payment, water bill, My house payment was due on the 1st of August and I just got the July payment paid a couple of days ago. Not to mention that my job is a driver for a newspaper in Conyers, Georgia. And Thursday morning the 4th of August, I was getting ready for work around 3:30a.m. and the company I had my car financed with, repoed my car. So when I couldn't get my job done because my car was gone, then I lost my job of 3 years. I had paid almost 4 years payments on this car and I have been so upset. I was reading your website and was hoping that you could help me in some way. Being able to work from my home and make money so I can be there for my girls, and be able to take care of me and Cassie and Caitlin without always having to worry if we are going to have a roof over our head or lights that work or even a car when we wake up in the morning. I also have a son that is 22 years old, and his father and I were divorced when he was 6 years old. I raised him by myself for the most part and I feel like I did a good job for us. I know I can take care of me and the girls as well, with some steady income. When I was raising Christopher I worked for The Rockdale Citizen Newspaper in Conyers, and in August of 2002 after 18 years working for them they ended my contract with them for no cause, (that's what the paper said anyway). And also in January of that same year I lost my Mom after 6 years of her fighting for her life every day. Not to mention a two year fight with my father and all the kids over our mothers will. I keep telling myself that God will not give us more than we can handle, but I am getting to the point that I'm not so sure about that. I have handled it so far, but I keep getting hit with something new every day it seems and I really don't know what to do at this point in my life. I want to be the best Mom I can be, and I want to take care of me and my girls, but I keep getting more and more behind and can't seem to get caught up much less get ahead. I would appreciate any help I can get at this point and also would like to know how I can get information about a work at home job, and help to get me out of this rut. I don't want to loose my house, I feel like it is the one thing that might can help me if I could get the right information. Many Thanks,
Here since: Jul 18, 2008
Female, 43
food service
mount pleasant, south caroplina
Languages: english
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Female, 27
unemployed
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Languages: english
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Female, 29
Student
Luton, Bedfordshire
Languages: English
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Newark, NJ
Languages: English
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Female, 28
CSR
Dayton, oh
Languages: english
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