[fintstone]

I used to work with a young woman at one of my part time jobs. She had married her husband when she was 14 (pregnant) and he was 16. They had a child every year afterwards (she had six at the time and still early 20's). She was bright, articulate and had a reasonably good personality. She had never really been allowed out of the house because she had cared for the children and her husband was pretty jealous and kept her barefoot and pregnant...but she looked very young and you would have never guess she had a bunch of kids...so she enjoyed her newfound freedom.
She was friendly and loved meeting people and working outside of the home...and was soon very popular with customers. Most of the men that came in (blue collar) flirted with her which she did seem to enjoy. Her husband had grown up working in his Dad's body shop and was very good...so he made really good money...but they really struggled to pay their bills. Her parents bought them groceries pretty regularly and had arranged for the job where she worked with me (they were the managers)...but they were only lower middle class themselves. Her husband was terrible with money. I remember one time when their rent was due...and his weekly paycheck was not quite enough to cover it. Since he didn't have enough for rent, he cashed it and went to a strip club and spent it all ($100 tips). One day she came in (after they had a fight) and told me that when she went home, he had destroyed everything they owned (cut up her clothes in little pieces and broke all the furniture). She said it had happened before...but she was much less willing to forgive as she had worked hard to earn some of that money. She eventually found a better job (car wash) and left. Pretty soon she dumped him for another loser boyfriend who treated her better. I don't know if that lasted...as I moved away. But, her choices/taste in men was pretty suspect. She may have another dozen kids by now.

She had a twin sister that was enlisted in the military and did quite well. Married to another GI with a good paycheck. She always wished it was her. No kids and good money. Freedom to travel.

She had a brother that was much like her. Young and married with 5 kids. He had some sort of hereditary disease (which was apparently passed down to males) where you die very young. But, that did not slow them down, they just kept chunking out kids. In fact, in the year or so I knew them, he went from seemingly healthy to a point where he was struggling to be coherent and could barely walk. Her parents gave his wife a job working with me for a while. Helped with their expenses as well. She often would bring her kids in to work and they were constantly having close calls (almost injured)..as she did not watch them well. I warned the managers (and her) that someone would get hurt. One day, one tyke was playing around an automatic gate and it appeared that he might get hurt...so she ran out and grabbed the roller/chain which somewhat mangled/crushed her hand. She got a small settlement from the insurance company about the time I left. Apparently claimed that there was no safety device to cut the gate's power off when her hand went through the pulley/gear. She said that they rented a nicer place down near the river. I told her that maybe it was not a good idea with all her kids to be on the water...and she better watch them closely. That was the last time I saw her, but about a week later, I saw on the news that one of their kids drowned during their move in...as they were distracted.