I agree with you, but let's put it on a more realistic level, let's imagine that this woman has children, she doesn't receive financial help from the father of her child , the woman has nothing to give to buy her child, she decides to take a risk that is difficult for her,  to gamble on a donkey, knowing that she will be left with nothing if she decides, but for her it is easier to spend it like that than to buy just one thing and be left Empty-handed, it is not the solution to do it but in the middle of the pressure and stress she got there , it is difficult, sometimes we do not know how other people Feel and why they make those Decisions.