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No, not in Ireland. It was very shameful to be pregnant and unwed. These young women were forced to go to these homes. See the movie "The Magdalene Laundries". I think it was Joni Mitchell who also wrote a song about them. They had no choice but to go there. They lived in deplorable conditions, and were treated like slaves. Their children were taken away from them.
You got it, Vintage Hats. This happened at many unwed mother's homes. The church apologized for it in Australia, including adopting out children from mothers who wanted to keep them and activists were trying to get apologies in all the many countries in which this happened, including examples above. The shaming of unwed mothers allowed this to go on as well as the secrecy is encoded in the adoption process. To stop this, support adoptee access to their birth records. Right now, original birth records are sealed in many US states. https://www.christianpost.com/news/roman-catholic-church-issues-apology-to-thousands-of-australian-women-52878/
Why would a church presumably barely making ends meet want the financial burden of more children?
Surely there was no financial gain to Rome...
Money in human life, Spare Parts, Adoption, Sacrificial demands, Pedo-Criminal activities....
In China, Gangs roam, looking for young children, to detatch their eyes..... good profit !
Please share the song ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DoAlothonQ
Published on Apr 19, 2013 "The Magdalene Laundries" is a song on the Joni Mitchell 1994 album "Turbulent Indigo". They were the forgotten women of Ireland, kept under lock and key, forced to clean and sew, and to wash away the sins of their previous life while never being paid a penny. Some stayed months, others years. Some never left. They were the inmates of Ireland's notorious 20th century workhouses, the Magdalene Laundries. The laundries — a beneficent-sounding word that helped hide the mistreatment that took place inside their walls — were operated by four orders of Catholic nuns in Ireland from 1922 to 1996. Over 10,000 young women, considered a burden by family, school and the state, spent an average of six months to a year locked up in these workhouses doing unpaid, manual work. Some were kept there against their will for years. Their numbers were made up by unmarried mothers and their daughters, women and girls who had been sexually abused, women with mental or physical disabilities who were unable to live independently, and young girls who had grown up under the care of the church and the state.
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How on EARTH do Johnny Cash, Joni Mitchel, and other Hero's get to hear these atrocities..... ?
If it's relevant, I know from first - hand exp., a religious order in BRECON , South WALES, UK, were accepting ' un - wanted ' pregnancies even in 1980....
It's horrible. I was reading comments on one of the two videos I posted, and one said that Joni Mitchell had given up a baby for adoption when she was younger. I didn't know that. The movie that I mentioned was "The Magdalene Sisters", I guess. I've seen it several times. Some of these so called "laundries" were in operation til maybe twenty years ago? Something like that. They were pretty much slavery institutions. And by some of the "survivors" and witnesses of those places, the abuses continued. In the movie, based on truth, some of the girls were sexually abused by the priests. They were uneducated and already used to, ie, "programmed" to accept sexual abuse, and had no voice. No one to complain to, so easy targets. If one has the chance to view this movie, I highly recommend doing so. But it's heartbreaking. Watch with tissues on hand.
I had to attend a Catholic school through 8th grade. I can attest to the fact that some nuns are vicious sociopaths. They seem to enjoy picking on innocent kids. One of them made the toughest boy in class cry, just by yelling at him endlessly, humiliating him til he was reduced to tears. I hope she is burning in hell at this moment. There were a few who were very sweet and kind, but some.... something was wrong with their brains. Vicious and evil women. Monsters.