Dimensions
144 x 225 x 13mm
Star Parker was a woman with a dream: to dance on "Soul Train." The only place she wound up dancing was in California's club scene, where she ingested a steady stream of alcohol and angel dust. Finding herself pregnant, she turned to the state for help. Welfare paid for her first abortion - and three subsequent ones. Far from impoverished, life on county aid ensured that her modus operandi was pure party girl.
A religious epiphany proved to be the catalyst for change in Star's life. Once a drug addict and welfare mom, Star spent fifteen years turning her life around. She founded her own small publishing company without a penny to her name, and she is the founder and president of the Coalition on Urban Affairs, a social policy research center. In 'Pimps, Whores and Welfare Brats', Star renounces the very system she once exploited. Recounting her own troubled youth, she traces her own involvement with the welfare system, and how she weaned herself from its benefits. As someone who has most definitely seen it all, Star offers a unique vantage point in assessing the cultural, economic, and political crises that America faces today
