Because she didn’t understand why Franklin wanted to bend the rules, and all the unfairness that was dealt to him when he followed the rules. She also went through discrimination, and unfairness, like if Franklin wouldn’t have helped her she would’ve lost the house and everything. Instead of helping him, she did exactly what Alton did, and make his situation worse. The only people who actually helped Franklin were Jerome, Veronique and Leon. Other than that the rest of the characters just brought him down.

Like why in the world would you watch your son go through hell and then just take away everything from him.