My personal belief is that these kids are not going with out a family, just a loving mother. Again it's the mother's choice, I see it no differantly then a mother giving a child up for adoption if she can not take care of it. Accept in this case the mother is choosing to not accept special treatment.
I think we should ease up on Burger Time. He is a twenty-five year old male. He is looking through the eyes of one who has a mother and is completely detached from the situation. He could not know the fierce love a mother will display for her children. He has not in his young years seen the anguish of children with no mother. I work in an elementary school and know and mentor motherless children. It is different even from fatherless children.
I am fifty-six and just lost my mother in death last week. I will never be able to call out to my mother again. I also have a daughter, and know that I would die for her at any moment, and fight to live to be there for her at the same time.
There is a deep sadness within me to think that this young woman did not fight for her future, and take the consequences of her "disobedient" action later. These children, yes, may have a family, but will never be able to feel a mother's special love. When they enter the first day of school, when they graduate from High School, when they marry, have the first grandchild, etc. there will be no proud mother standing by with the look of love that only a mother can display.