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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It may be excused by the era they lived in and she did the right thing in keeping her,  but Loretta Young raising the baby she had with Clark Gable and pretending she adopted her. I remember seeing something about the daughter having a hard life because of the deception. 
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Clark Gable raped Loretta Young. Young had no concept of date rape and blamed herself. Very late in her life she learned what it was and stated that’s what had happened to her. She was Catholic and desperately wanted to keep her baby. Loretta actually did place her baby in the orphanage and legally adopted her around 18 months of age. The daughter didn’t learn the truth until young adulthood, and there was a period of estrangement. I think it’s not fair to place Loretta Young in the celebrity bad parent hall of fame. That would be Clark Gable. Loretta did everything she could do in that time to love, provide for, and protect her daughter.

My grandmother was raped about five years after Loretta. She told no one but a friend (who helped her clean up and kept her at her house for a few days) until she told me shortly before her death. [i]I should never have let him get me alone[/i]. That’s the phrase she repeated over and over as she told me the story. My grandmother was a very strong woman and wasn’t known to take blame very often. Even though we live with rape culture, I don’t think we understand how deeply ingrained the sense of female culpability for rape was.[/quote]

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