Our family used to live near Hattiesburg. Hmm...never heard of that place...
Thank the good Lord that today’s girls aren’t branded as “BAD” and their life ruined because they became pregnant. In my early life divorced women were shunned as well. I wasn’t allowed to play with the children of a divorced mother.
I sometimes think that I should stay away from Southern Baptist and their ppreachers. Locked up prison environments and beatings for pregnant girls. Just not what I would expect from people who call themselves Christians. That being said, the article is from Dalton, Ga. about what happened in southern Mississippi. Let’s don’t blame Dalton for the sins of Mississippi.
Abusive Christianity is fake Christianity...unless it is abusing merchants trying to turn the courtyard of the Holy Temple into a den of thieves...or maybe those abusing the name of Christ to sanctify other evil behavior like mistreating children.
I’m glad these young unwed mothers lived to tell their stories.
In the 1950s my friend had a child out of wedlock. The father was an older, married man who visited their home frequently on business.
Less than a year later, my friend took her baby and ran away with a trucker to another state. Her parents soon received a call to come and claim her body and the baby.
The trucker and his mother claimed that the 17 year old had committed suicide, leaving her infant in the hands of strangers.
Some young girls are impulsive and vulnerable and they are not equipped to be single parents.
I was born in such a place, but it was run by Catholic Charities. My father wanted me kept in the family, but my mother’s family and the home nixed that, being that his family was Baptist. So I was given to strangers who main qualification was that they were Catholic and married.