tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333405565931840271.post79629684470914130..comments2024-01-02T23:04:02.489-08:00Comments on The Narcissist's Child: ChoiceSweet Violethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08321094659806702782noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333405565931840271.post-66222695367420120012016-01-26T07:26:00.155-08:002016-01-26T07:26:00.155-08:00Thanks for that clarification - I had a wonderful ...Thanks for that clarification - I had a wonderful experience at Gerard Hall (a home for unwed mothers in Wisconsin), so I was confused as to why she didn't jump at the chance to go. But knowing this was in the 50's or 60's....that changes things. I faintly recall hearing about issues like that in homes during that time period, and while I had figured from the context that this occurred pre-Roe vs. Wade, I hadn't made that connection with the homes in that time period. <br /><br />Makes me glad my experience came at the end of the 90's.Patricialynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16656235987162214880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333405565931840271.post-9038950967206824762014-07-31T22:24:46.319-07:002014-07-31T22:24:46.319-07:00I lost my 1st baby at home . I had a major infecti...I lost my 1st baby at home . I had a major infection and a newly married sister. I was 6 weeks at my graduation didn't find out till after my family disappeared on vacation. I was very ill and had no idea where they were... My mother had said she was finally getting her vacation... My mother arrived home 3 days later to find me my boyfriend and my female friend eating dinner. My mother found my sisters blond hair on her pillow and threw the contents of my bedroom out on the streets she gave my father 24 hours to get me out of her home.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333405565931840271.post-32505074661486969862012-12-12T23:05:07.412-08:002012-12-12T23:05:07.412-08:00That, actually, was not the point. The point was t...That, actually, was not the point. The point was the lack of support in her homelife and that she was feeling abandoned, with no control over her life.<br /><br />Also, it was well known, even at that time, that many maternity homes spirited the newborns away without their teen mothers ever seeing or holding them. Modern investigations into the practices of maternity homes back in the 50s and 60s have confirmed this...and we girls knew it. It was assumed that we did not want to keep our babies (as that was socially unacceptable at that time) and so the entire machinery of maternity homes was geared towards adoption. My mother knew this...counted on this...banked on it to pry that baby out of my grasp.<br /><br />The point here is not that she may have had an erroneous notion about a particular maternity home, but that she was not treated with love, respect and compassion at a very emotional time in her life, but as an object to be moved around and manipulated, with no concern for her feelings or desires.Sweet Violethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08321094659806702782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333405565931840271.post-61807290203719617412012-12-12T12:29:03.070-08:002012-12-12T12:29:03.070-08:00Go to the Florence Crittendon Home...be immersed i...Go to the Florence Crittendon Home...be immersed in normal, supportive people and LEARN that she wasn't alone and there were resources available to her....I wish I could have told her that...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com