Posted on 10/25/2013 8:29:16 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
It doesn’t take long for people to begin to believe that things were never done another way.
When I was born in 64 almost no one had health insurance but even most FReepers under 40 or 50 years old can’t understand how anyone could afford to see a doctor without it. (My birth cost about $85 or just under 2 weeks of my dad’s pay as a garbageman)
I can’t find an exact date but it looks like compulsory state records of marriage came about in the years just prior to the civil war.
Its one of the problems with Obamacare. People suddenly can’t live without it despite never having it before
Give the kid back to the folks who were raising her. They didn’t steal her.
Turning back to “the other way” with family matters would be a hell of a good idea in my opinion...
The only reason I was insured as a child was because my dad was in the military. Then I married someone who was, so I was still insured, which was a benefit that was still uncommon. In the late 60’s/early 70’s it was still not unusual for childbirth to be under $150-$200 for a plain vanilla birth-Lamaze classes, go have the kid, pay at the desk and go home 12-24 hrs later, but that was before legal sharks like John Edwards. My cub was paid for by military insurance, but I still paid a deductible, for some fancy diapers and other goodies for the kid,and for my breakfast before going home-it was about $40, but no ambulance chaser standing by...
Today your Aunt and Uncle would have their lives completely destroyed by the State for what you have described.
Is that ever true-they’d have to move south of the border to be under the radar from CPS child confiscation.
Many of us here would have relatives in the same boat, if the world back then had been insane, like now...
Gee....thanks.
When I was a kid my grandmother had two friends that were sisters, one “adopted.” These women would have been born around 1910.
The adopted one was born a gypsy. When she was a toddler, her gypsy clan was allowed to camp for a while on land owned by the other woman’s father. They needed to move on, but the toddler was sick and so the gypsies gave to her to the family that owned the land and they raised her as their own.
I know this is fiction but the story behind Tom Hayden in the movie “The Godfather” was that Sonny Corleone found Tom living on the streets so he took him in. The family had Tom educated and he became the Lawyer for the Corleone family.
If you read the post to which I responded, the poster was relating a story about one of their relatives from the 1920s, not the current circumstances.
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