Livre d'Or

If context helps, the author of the post was a college senior who was raised on food stamps and graduated top of her class in high school. My impression from reading the post was that it was the first thing she'd read in college — surrounded by all the upper-middle-class kids you are surrounded by in college, especially at an American small liberal arts college — that actually validated her own experiences and those of her family. She may be painting a rosier picture than the grim realities you're dealing with, but I also think she is othering "the poor" a lot less than you are assuming she is.

The biggest takeaway I got from this article was the idea that having a child early could seem like a logical choice, to someone making that choice, especially if it doesn't look like they have a lot of options anyway. Maybe not a wise choice in the long run, but not quite as astoundingly stupid as it seems to the average upper-middle-class kid from a good school who ends up going to medical school, either.