Well technically speaking, you kind of pointed out yourself how the mother is sort of an unfit parent. Parenting is to provide for the child, not just emotiona

Well technically speaking, you kind of pointed out yourself how the mother is sort of an unfit parent. Parenting is to provide for the child, not just emotionally, which I'm sure this mother does a tremendous job of, given how much she has sacrificed for the child's well being, but also to provide physically as well. It seems like the couple were on the border of poverty before the child was conceived, so it wasn't a wise financial decision to do so. Yes it's a rough situation, but as many commenters have pointed out you can do cloth diapers, more tedious to clean, but saves you supposed $1,000. As others have also pointed out you can goto Church or various other organizations that provide support. And more importantly you could have budgeted and realized, though you want to have a child, this is probably a bad decision. Kids get more expensive as they grow up, not less, so if there are already issues around diapers, the situation will only get worse as time goes on. Just saying, this isn't an unwanted pregnancy, this was a predetermined choice, so certainly some accounting and pre-planning could have been involved to show, this is definitely a bad decision before hand and will create a tremendous amount of strain on the parents as well as eventually on the child.