29 Year Old Welfare Broodmare With Ten Children
Meet Latrica Ryan, a twenty nine year old stay at home mother (yeah right) who already has ten children.
FLINT, Michigan — With 10 kids and no vehicle, Latrica Ryan is used to juggling.
Going to a movie or out for dinner is a like plotting a major tactical undertaking. Not that such outings happen that much.
“It would really be nice if I could take my kids where they needed to go, instead of having to find them a ride,” Ryan said. “And when we do go somewhere, I have to pay four or five people (for gas) to get us all there.
“I have booster seats and car seats. It’s a lot.”
Ryan, is a 29-year-old single stay-at-home mother of five sons and five daughters, who range in age from 2 months to 13 years.
Transportation isn’t the only issue Ryan has to deal with.
The Flint woman said she sometimes needs help providing her children with clothes and food.
“As they get older, it’s becoming harder and more expensive to buy them clothes,” Ryan said. “I try to keep the older kids looking nice because I don’t want them to be teased at school.
“And they don’t starve,” she said. “But there are times when I start running low on food and I have to call for help.”
Ryan may not be able to take her kids on a fancy vacation, but with the help of organizations such as FACED Corporation, she is able to ensure that her kids’ basic needs are met.
The Flint-based agency has helped Ryan clothe and feed her children, as well as pay utility bills.
“It started off with diapers and bus passes.” Ryan said of her first encounter with FACED 10 years ago. “Now, Retinea (Dye, a maternal and infant health advocate at FACED) will give me a ride to doctors’ appointments for my kids. She’ll take me to their schools. She’s always there when I need her.”
FACED is a faith-based community outreach agency that focuses on assisting the low-income. Dye said the agency helps educate mothers on parenting and provides them with things such as maternity clothes, baby clothes, other baby items, counseling and support groups.
Dye said the agency has even helped pay security deposits for housing.
Tough times have brought more people into the agency in search of help.
“We’re getting more calls for assistance with utility bills because the price of gas had gone up,” Dye said. “We can only (help) so many people, so we’re referring them to other agencies.”
Dye said FACED has reached its limit of aiding 50 families. The agency is in need of donations to continue assisting families.
“In between (Women, Infant and Children) appointments, moms run out of formula, and they turn to us,” Dye said. “Sometimes we have what they need and if we don’t, we have to refer them to other agencies.”
Even without a car, Ryan manages to stay involved in her children’s school life, volunteering and meeting with teachers to check on their progress.
Most of Ryan’s 10 children are in school and six are on the honor roll, she said.
“They’re good kids,” she said.
Her oldest child is thirteen, which means Latrica got herself knocked up at fifteen or sixteen. Notice that no mention is ever made of a father, or fathers, or of Latrica ever having been married. Nor does this sorry attempt of a sob story ever mention Latrica ever having had a job. Yet readers are supposed to feel bad because she has no washer and dryer! Why doesn’t she just close her legs, get up off her back, and get a job?
December 4th, 2008 at 11:22 am
I bet she’s not even Catholic!
December 28th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Everytime I hear stories like this it make me disgusted, she should be ashamed to even put her story out nationally HEY AMERICA IM 29 YEARS OLD AND HAVE 10 KIDS and as usual the fathers aren’t around. Nobody made her lay down and spread em and now we as tax payers have to pick up the tab for it
February 14th, 2009 at 10:14 am
I’m sorry, but if she had “her first encounter with FACED 10 years ago” she presumably only (ONLY?!?!?!) had three children at the time, presumably with no job and no “man” to help her. Wouldn’t LOGIC have dictated that FACED tell her to keep her legs shut, or to sew them up or something?! Abuses like this infuriate me WELL beyond reason and I’m thinking I might become an anti-welfare advocate when I return yo the states.
Don’t get me wrong. It sounds like LR is actively involved in seeing that her ten children have quality lives, but INTERVENTION (such as a better education approach by FACED which should have discouraged LR from having SEVEN MORE children) needs to pre-empt any more welfare hand outs.
It just seems SO easy to abuse the system, and then there are people like me who can’t have children, and will have to settle for a tiny little house (all I can afford in my expensive metropolitan area of NYC when I move back) if I still plan to eat. I get hand-outs from no one to get what I need, and I think all of us feel that way.
March 8th, 2011 at 11:24 pm
Ah yes, Welfare broodmares. The reason my disabled husband and I can’t get food stamps or any sort of benefits help.
I’m writing this from a public location on a public computer from Arkansas. My husband is disabled, I have looked long and hard for a job and haven’t found one. I’ve been unemployed for almost three whole years now. We’re trying to live on $674 a month, and apparently we’re not eligible for food stamps here in Arkansas because (and this is the reason stated) too many unmarried women with young children need it.
They have WIC, free school breakfasts and lunches, bill payment help, housing assistance…
We get nothing. We’ve been homeless once before and are facing imminent homelessness now. Every month it’s either all our bills or food. And we’re not wasting our money on unneccessary expenditures. We have water and electricity, but no TV. We went this winter without heat in our apartment. We don’t have a landline, or any internet access at home. We sold our computers. We’ve maxed out the food pantries. And the credit bills keep getting higher and higher because we need the credit just to buy food for ourselves while these broodmares get everything they wish without even lifting a finger.
I’ve tried to find work. We don’t have a car. I don’t know anyone who could drive us. Thus, I’m limited.
Maybe that’s why they became broodmares to begin with. I’d try it but my husband is sterile. No, I really wouldn’t try it.
October 21st, 2012 at 12:17 am
To all of you negative people out there. I am going to stick up for my friend, Latrica Ryan. I happen to know this lady. I attend school with her, and I think she is a nice lady. How dare you judge her! You DO NOT know her situation! Do not judge a person, until you have walked a mile in her shoes. It says in the Bible, “Judge not lest you be judged. You, journalists are proving more and more, how heartless you can really be. I have said my piece. Someone needed to stick up for her, and I am that person.