thestepjc's review
5.0
Innocent: Confessions of a Welfare Mother, is an enlightening account of the true experiences of a woman and her community of mostly welfare recipients. It pulls at the heartstrings and I will be recommending this book to many.
chrisiant's review
4.0
It’s so funny to read a story you didn’t know about people you do! Barbara writes beautifully and honestly about her years as a single mother of young children receiving welfare. Her depictions of the constant battles for basic needs and dignity are stark, but the women she met along the way are a fierce and varied group and she sings their strengths.
carolanncdematos's review
4.0
‘Some changes are deliberate, only made after much weighing of pros and cons, while some are decided in an instant. Still others are the merest accident …’
As you can guess from the title of this memoir, this book is about a mother on welfare. The book’s author, Barbara Morrison was raised in a family that abhorred the idea of welfare, and looked down in disgust upon those whom collected it. Additionally, Morrison is not the stereotypical ideal of a welfare mom being college-educated, raised in an affluent neighborhood, and having lived through a generally pleasant childhood. She was a women who fell in love, got married, got pregnant, and then got smacked in the face with reality. Her happily ever after came crashing down around her s Morrison’s husband left her with a newborn son, pregnant with a second child, unable to work, unable to find child care, and unwelcome by her affluent parents.
In ‘Innocent’, Morrison writes an open and candid account of her time as a welfare mother. Her account is blunt, and realistic, and without flowery language or excuses – she simply tells her truth as she lived it. READ MORE
As you can guess from the title of this memoir, this book is about a mother on welfare. The book’s author, Barbara Morrison was raised in a family that abhorred the idea of welfare, and looked down in disgust upon those whom collected it. Additionally, Morrison is not the stereotypical ideal of a welfare mom being college-educated, raised in an affluent neighborhood, and having lived through a generally pleasant childhood. She was a women who fell in love, got married, got pregnant, and then got smacked in the face with reality. Her happily ever after came crashing down around her s Morrison’s husband left her with a newborn son, pregnant with a second child, unable to work, unable to find child care, and unwelcome by her affluent parents.
In ‘Innocent’, Morrison writes an open and candid account of her time as a welfare mother. Her account is blunt, and realistic, and without flowery language or excuses – she simply tells her truth as she lived it. READ MORE
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