Posted on 10/06/2011 8:02:32 AM PDT by julieee
Steve Jobs Changed the World: Adoption Changed His
The news hit me in the gut. I couldn’t believe I was seeing those few numbers, communicating his passing, beneath his photo: 1955-2011. Steve Jobs has, literally, changed the world.
http://www.lifenews.com/2011/10/06/steve-jobs-changed-the-world-adoption-changed-his/
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Jobs’ biological parents – Abdulfattah John Jandali, a Syrian Muslim immigrant to the U.S., who later became a political science professor at the University of Nevada and is presently a vice president of Boomtown Hotel Casino in Reno, Nevada, and Joanne Schieble (later Simpson), an American graduate student of German ancestry who went on to become a speech language pathologist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs
http://mommyish.com/childrearing/steve-jobs-two-mothers-one-revolutionary-child-747/
Schieble was somewhat disappointed that the Jobs weren’t college-educated. In fact, Paul had dropped out of high school. She made them promise they would send him to college. As is well-known, Jobs dropped out of school in his first year because the cost was killing his parents.
and:
In 1954, Joanne Schieble was an unmarried college student who discovered she was pregnant. Abortions were available, but dangerous and illegal. Marriage wasn’t desirable at the time (although she later did marry the man who impregnated her). She opted, instead, to give birth to her baby and place him for adoption.
It's not for me to forgive. I am not even talking about her. I am thinking about Jobs lying in court, which is called perjury - a felony. All to avoid child support at a time when he was quite wealthy, thus forcing the mother, for a time at least, to go on public assistance - presumably to keep his public persona spotless. This doesn't trouble you?
No, because we dont know the back story of why he was so hostile to the mother, and because that is history!
Perhaps she refused to marry him and refused to give him access to his child. We don’t know. It wasn’t the child’s fault, but adults do selfish things out of anger.
Ultimately he accepted the girl as his, took her into his family, gave her his name, gave her a home with him, paid for her college education at Harvard, and apparently set her up with a nice trust fund that gives her a life of leisure as a writer living in Europe.
Steve Jobs ultimately set aside his anger and did the right thing by his child (but not his biological father).
We shall have to agree to disagree on the harm he caused in his life, versus the good. Maybe his daughter will write a book.
His birth mother almost balked when she found out his parents weren’t college grads:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd_ptbiPoXM
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