This is not unusual. Most people who win the lottery blow through the money very quickly.
If you didn't have the skills to build the wealth, you're unlikely to have the skills to hold onto it.
If she gets a triple facepunch, what should the father of her children get? If the father were around, do you think she would have had to leave her children in the car on a hot day while she did a job interview? She left her children for 45 minutes and is facing prison time ("you abandoned your children for 45 minutes, it's wrong for children to be away from their mother, so we're going to put you in prison away from your children," this is logical?), he left his children for YEARS and nobody says a word to him?
A single mother of two. This is a lonely woman who doesn't know how to handle her life, this is why she got into trouble in the first place. From the article,
"Maupin says they have reports that Taylor spent $6,000 on studio time for the father of her children. He believes that the once-estranged father came back only after Taylor had the donated money."
So she'd obviously hoped that the money could bring her children's father back into her life, and that by spending it on studio time for him, he could build a career to support them. She wanted a traditional family: husband, wife, parents together, one or both parents doing paid work to support the family. Wow, what a bitch!
Obviously this was poor judgment on her part, nobody builds a media career overnight, if you're really good you don't have to buy your own studio time, some signs you up and gives it to you. However, our modern society has a lottery mentality, we're told stories of people who by luck suddenly built their lives up into luxury. See the dance and singing talent shows and game shows for examples. And by donating to her over a hundred thousand dollars, people had told her, "Yes dear, the dream of instant effortless wealth is real!"
Society told her a story, and she believed it. Now society says, "how dare you believe what we told you?! Bad woman!"
Why does the article not have bad things to say about the father? Why don't you? Why is abandoning your children for years okay, but for 45 minutes is wrong? Triple facepunch? Really? Facepalm, yes. Facepunch? Again, if she gets a punch, what should the father get? Or do only women have responsibilities towards children?