What is wrong with the story is that the women admit no guilt. Oh, they admit lots of guilty feelings. The proper ones too. The ones feminists have used to promote seriously destructive behavior for young women. No, the problem is the women do not admit the right guilt.
The women were too young to be having sex. They were not with men who would marry them. The men impregnated them and a child was born. They had to give the child up.
The child is the one who was wronged here. The child was denied the opportunity to live with its parents. The child was set on a course wondering, probably in darker moments, if life would have been better with its natural parents.
All these years later, all the women can think about is how they feel. Not their child.
The women ought to be feeling glad their child was given a chance at life. They need to take comfort in that they did the right thing in a terrible situation. Tragically, the majority of children conceived in similiar situations after 1973 never got the chance at life...
Mrs. P
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Posted by: Misspent | December 19, 2006 at 05:39 PM