Anyone else heard of the "Mom 2 Mom" program?

[phillybri]

The school my wife works at is involved in the program.

At it's essence, it's a way for rich white folks who feel guilty about having so much to bring an inner city child into their home a couple times a month and show them the life they'll probably never have.

My wife says that most of the poor kids involved end up resenting their actual families for not giving them the life that their "Mom 2 Mom" show them.

I think is a horrible idea. How about working to make this kid's life better at all times???

Am I crazy???

[olddem43]

1. No, I had similar experiences when I was a kid -

Visiting people who were very wealthy. It made me hate my family's poor circumstances. I guess it also made me a Democrat too, because of the seeming unfairness of the distribution of wealth. In those days, it always seemed like the difference between the haves and have-nots was just what bed you were born in or, occasionally, dumb luck. Poor people can be just as intelligent and usually work harder than wealthy people.

[bbernardini]

2. Sounds like a porn site.

;)

[JM]

3. You're confused

The site you were looking for is Mom ON Mom, not Mom 2 Mom...

I agree these programs are nonsense. Just my opinion though. I am not a Social Worker, Psychologist, or Psychiatrist, nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn Express recently.

JM

[bratcatinok]

4. Sounds like a badly thought out

mentoring program. A couple of times a month isn't often enough to establish a rapport with a child and to help encourage the ideas in them they can accomplish the same things. I can see where it would create resentment.

Do the white children spend a couple of times a month at the inner city kiddo's homes?

[fudge stripe cookays]

5. I don't think it's an awful program, just too far out there.

What these kids need is for middle-class folks to spend some time with then (kind of like Big Brother/Big Sisters in a way).

These kids need to see the MIDDLE class life, not the digustingly over-rich snooty lifestyle.

If they can be shown the way regular folks life (and encouraged to finish high school and at least PART of college, even a few classes), they can see what they can aspire towards.

With so much poverty and drugs, and no stable family influences around them, this is so incredibly necessary to change their thinking about what is "normal."

[phillybri]

6. Kick

:kick: for the afternoon folk...