Wow....I could write "War and Peace" but out of deference to all CRTers I will not
However.......
You mention "conversions" from working girl to wife - I know - or more correctly, have heard of - a few instances where this has worked well - but conversely many many more where it has not; almost lottery winning odds that it will not for reasons that should be very apparent.
Again I could say lots, but the irony to me has always been that most guys would never consider a serious relationship or marriage with a sex worker in the USA, but would outside of the country, sure - that fact has never failed to amaze me.
The Ch*ld, a totally innocent party
always gets the shaft, unfairly, because of the bad decisions made in this case by the mother, but also, to a certain extent by the father - on some level he had to know that the likelihood of long time success was small.
I've posted this before, but the advice my friend John gave me back in 8th grade in the late 1960's makes a lot of sense:
"Rob, never marry a whore.....she'll get tired of your ugly c.o.c.k. and be out f.u.c.k.ing other guys within 6 months....." John was wise beyond his years
PS To me (because I don't want to quote a statistic or percentage that I really can't totally back up and thus piss off my friend ID

) the vast majority of problems we have as a nation and personally can be attributed to poor personal choices - your example is a good one; if the mother did not choose to go out phucking, she would be living in an upper middle class home in CT vs Barrio Mexico in CR (just using an example to make a point)