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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP sounds like a 14  year old troll. [/quote]

My grandma came from a very religious family and had an out of wedlock son in 1938. She kept her son. She was 19. She had a lifelong relationship with both her parents and siblings, and also her children. She married and had more kids, my father being one.

Op’s details that mom was states away but somehow the church caused her to give her child up…and then is staying she wishes her mom could
have aborted her. ok. [/quote]

Sounds like you really don’t understand   any of this.

It was about what society forced on women. [/quote]

This. I am OP’s mother’s age. Her mother’s difficulties had nothing to do with Baptists -it had to do with prevailing mores of the time. I used to volunteer at[b] Florence Crittenden homes.[/b] That’s where my high school friends who got in trouble. The homes served all faiths and then arranged for adoptions. It is what was back then. Blaming the Baptists is not helpful.  Back the. It was almost every religion, especially Catholic and orthodox Christian churches. Lots of young girls disappeared, had their babies and put them up for adoption[/quote]

aka "home for unwed mothers".  There used to be one here in DC.   Another person I know was sent to live with a good, catholic family during her pregnancy, doing housework to earn her keep.  She was known as "the bad girl upstairs".

She gave the child up for adoption, as expected, and later thinks she met the child, adopted by an acquaintance of hers.  The kid had the right birthday and had curly, tangly hair just like my friend had at that age.  I later heard that this person adopted a child herself.[/quote]

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