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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He is disgusting.  It does make me wonder if he experienced sexual abuse as a child.  There is something so creepy about Jim Bob.  I think Anna is a victim here, she doesn't know how to get herself or children out of a horrible situation.  [/quote]

She may be a victim but if she can’t keep her children away from a sexual abuser, then she is not a competent legal guardian. [/quote]

+1  As a mother, I can't understand not having that instinct to get your kids away from something like that.  It wouldn't take me half a second to run far away from someone like that if I had kids with him....regardless of any religious brainwashing.  Being a mother comes first. 
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I mean  women not  fundy brainwashed women allow their children to be abused by their boyfriends and husbands every day.[/quote]

seriously, there is always one Perfect Parent Karen who shows up in threads like these saying they would never allow this and they don't understand moms who do. Well duh lady. No remotely healthy functional person would ever allow this, or anything close to this, ever.

Anna's brain is not responding to the primal urge to protect her children because her brain is broken. Maybe her brain was wired wrong from birth -- it happens. Or maybe she once had the correct wiring in there, but her brain was broken by lies, fear (of abuse, of going to hell for divorce, take your pick) and a cult -- this stuff is trauma -- it actually rewrites your brain pathways. She's not behaving like you would because she's not you.

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And historically speaking, this severing of the maternal instance thanks to cultural conditioning is pretty common. Think femicide in China, Spartan mothers getting happy about their kids dying in battle and letting babies who looked weak be left out to die... I won’t go on because this is depressing.

Anyway, she should be held accountable, because cultural conditioning is a reason but not an excuse, but[b] I wouldn’t assume that she actually could have made different choices[/b]. [/quote]

You guys are stripping her of her agency, which dehumanizes her. All of us have agency, no matter how tough our lives have been.

And it doesn’t take a Perfect Parent Karen to know that you ought to keep your children away from sexual abusers. Get real. [/quote]

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