Obviously you do not need to bring children in this world at this state of the game. You can get FREE birth control thru the Health Dept. You can not support your selfs let alone children. Do you really want to bring kids in this world and have them go thru the same heart ache that you have gone thru? It is not fair to them, they cannot fend for themselfs. Kids are expensive, there is diapers, formula, clothes, medicine the list goes on and on. This is or should be one of the biggest committments in life. They count on you for evertyhing. Love is just a part of it. Love doesn't provide everything needed. Why would you want to continue the cycle? It sounds like it is your mother and now you? How sad. I wish the best for you.

I hope that they find the help and support that they need. It sounds to me like it wasn't their fault for him to lose his job. He just needs to find one and hopefully that will solve a lot of their problems. They might consider her going to the COVE and him consider the newly formed Jacob house (not sure if it is completed yet or not). Things happen in life that are out of our control. How many of us would be in the same situation if we lost our jobs today? Most people live paycheck to paycheck and with the economy the way it is a lot of us are just glad to have jobs.

This article is a joke! To me there is a difference between those who are homeless by circumstance and those by choice. Why does this article not focus on those who have lost jobs, or youths who have no adults willing to take the resposibilty for them? Mason County has homeless who are trying to educate themselves, or work. I will support them 100%, but will not support someone who sits on a computer meeting online, or trying to get pregnant. Shame on the paper for putting this on the front page! Put the teenage homeless or the unemployed person trying to work, not get pregnant. Next time, for the front page try not to put a cozy free room with tv in background or fastfood results.

I think that this story is tragic. Even more tragic is when people review the lives of these people as if they could have done better. Thank goodness for groups like WSPCC, COVE and any other person or group who just wants to help while reserving judgment as a task for the man upstairs alone.

I have been homeless myself, so do have empathy for this couple. A few questions came to mind as I read this story. First of all, what kind of sense did moving back to Michigan make with the unemployment rate here the highest in the country? Second was, why is she pregnant again and why are they living in an area that has no homeless shelter for them to live in WHILE they are getting back on their feet? Perhaps getting on a bus to a warmer climate where the work is much more available would be a better choice. I myself became disabled three years ago and am still fighting Social Security for the benifits I paid for my whole life of 52yrs. I was self employed most my life and paid both halves of the tax which was supposed to be there if I needed to collect. If not for a caretaking position for a multi-unit housing situation I myself would be at the Goodwill Inn in T.C. for the winter. I spent the Summer living in an eighteen foot camper. Had the caretaking position not come thru and the Goodwill Inn was full, I would have headed to a warmer place to fight out the winter. This couple needs to make some better choices and go where there is a hope of getting work!

Please, do not reproduce. Be sure you can care for yourself first.

Having children is so special, but we have to bring them into homes that are going to be warm and safe. If you don't have that, please think of how you were raised and don't want to do the same things to your children. As said above, love doesn't provide everything and we have to take that into account. I wish the best for you and I will pray for you both. Greater Life Church has a great message for everyone on Sunday mornings, so if you would like to hear, please come and meet some neat people. God Bless

where is your mom and dad or even your brother in all of this and the hard times? i did not know you had a sister named kendra. hope all gets better but no more kids need to be brought in to this.

I've been homeless before having to live out of my vehicle or flopping at whoever would put me up for a night and I still have no job, having applications all over Mason County. I have been turned down for assistance on the State and local levels repeatedly. I like Ludington and would like to stay but not sure how much of an option that would be anymore. I would have to agree, why get pregnant if you know you have nowhere to go? Well, SHE has somewhere to go. They have all sorts of programs for women and..."minorities"...but where are the programs to assist men?

most people are just a few paycheck away from being homeless. bite your tongues people...it could happen to anyone.

Bottom line, don't bring children in this world if you can not provide for them. It is a rough cruel world as it is. Being homeless is not a place to raise children the proper way. I don't think that Martha and Drew enjoy it and I don't think the kids would either. There are programs to get your GED, that pay for transportation and school fees. The library also has free internet access also to try to complete your courses, and also access to the local news paper to check the classifieds. In fact I have seen the same lady several times out on the corner by Meijer with a sign saying willing to work for food, etc. on more than one occasion. I give that gal all the credit in the world to stand out there with a sign for hours. She is the kind that is a go getter and is trying very hard to make it. I wish you all luck.

The economy in this area as well as most of the state is terrible. Those with jobs are terrified of losing them. Those without jobs are often experiencing more fear and pain than most of us care to even think about. There are so many families doubling up to share housing and financing. None of us has a right to judge. When people make rude or insensitive comments they are usually just trying to justify their own refusal to even try to do what they know in their hearts they can do or should try to do.

It is definitely NOT fair to a child to bring him/her into this world not knowing where he/she will lay his/her head each night. And it is NOT fair to continue the cycle that sounds like it began with your parents, and possibly before them. Go somewhere warm where you can live on the streets or camp until you can get jobs, etc., and for God's sake, get on some free birth control...

There are minimum wage jobs in the area. There is free birth control. There is section 8 housing. There are people who want everything for free and not work for it.I suspect this couple is one of them. I dont feel sorry for them. They are a lot of programs out there if you really want to work. THERE IS FREE BIRTH CONTROL, but wait, if you get pregnant you will get more benefits from the government. I hope someone lets them read all the comments. Taking advantage of us is an understatement.