[As an adopted person]
Jul. 18th, 2025 06:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
roaming_kate23I like to listen to podcasts and I discovered one called Liberty Lost.
It is about girls who were sent to the Liberty Godparents’ home ,run by Liberty University which was founded by Jerry Falwell(you can tell already where this is going..)
The girls who get sent to this home..their only sin was getting pregnant out of wedlock(to say that is a no-no in fundamentalist families would be putting it mildly. These are kids who are shielded from the outside world as much as their parents can manage(though they have been known to listen to non-approved music like Coldplay and John Mayer and watch non-approved TV shows including The Secret Life Of The American Teenager which has a teenage mother as one of the main characters(and the mom on that show was played by Molly Ringwald who has played several teen mothers-in For Keeps and also in the TV miniseries of The Stand.)
Now,in my case, my birth mother was married and had several other kids.Then she got pregnant with me.So quite a bit different than the girls I’ve been listening to on this podcast.
Given how..Christian these families are..I guess my worry would be that they would take out their hatred of the kid being out of wedlock being the reason they are hard on the kid that they adopt. I’m not saying that this is the case but to me it is a legitimate worry.
After all, the way that the girls are treated says a LOT about the fact it is a religious institution.Random ass rules,they have to give their kids up for adoption, etc. You would be surprised how many girls who were in the home had family(never their parents;usually grandparents or aunts and uncles.) who were willing to help pout with raising a child.
(As an aside:I was adopted at the age of 4 months . My birth mother wanted me to be adopted by a Catholic family. I am well aware that I could have been aborted and never existed.And that’s something that gets me thinking.I wonder :
A)What my birth northern would think about her child being pro-choice.
B)What did she think when Roe Vs. Wade became a law(and then when it was repealed.)
It is about girls who were sent to the Liberty Godparents’ home ,run by Liberty University which was founded by Jerry Falwell(you can tell already where this is going..)
The girls who get sent to this home..their only sin was getting pregnant out of wedlock(to say that is a no-no in fundamentalist families would be putting it mildly. These are kids who are shielded from the outside world as much as their parents can manage(though they have been known to listen to non-approved music like Coldplay and John Mayer and watch non-approved TV shows including The Secret Life Of The American Teenager which has a teenage mother as one of the main characters(and the mom on that show was played by Molly Ringwald who has played several teen mothers-in For Keeps and also in the TV miniseries of The Stand.)
Now,in my case, my birth mother was married and had several other kids.Then she got pregnant with me.So quite a bit different than the girls I’ve been listening to on this podcast.
Given how..Christian these families are..I guess my worry would be that they would take out their hatred of the kid being out of wedlock being the reason they are hard on the kid that they adopt. I’m not saying that this is the case but to me it is a legitimate worry.
After all, the way that the girls are treated says a LOT about the fact it is a religious institution.Random ass rules,they have to give their kids up for adoption, etc. You would be surprised how many girls who were in the home had family(never their parents;usually grandparents or aunts and uncles.) who were willing to help pout with raising a child.
(As an aside:I was adopted at the age of 4 months . My birth mother wanted me to be adopted by a Catholic family. I am well aware that I could have been aborted and never existed.And that’s something that gets me thinking.I wonder :
A)What my birth northern would think about her child being pro-choice.
B)What did she think when Roe Vs. Wade became a law(and then when it was repealed.)
