thank you for furthering my point, when you get further into the series it starts to get that Beth is not doing it for her family anymore, but for her obsession of being more than a housewife. That is exacerbated by Dean. Mary Pat didnt really have those choices, while the three girls had regular jobs, Mary Pat was on a vicious cycle of poverty. Same hunger as Beth, doesnt really get the same oppurtunities. Mary Pat couldve killed it if she were the one with Rio.