My parents were married in the early 1960's. They have celebrated their 50th anniversary. It has been a wild ride for them and their children. They have some stories that just blow my mind and require that I share, either to heal or to make sure others are at least as scarred by these stories as I am. These vignettes are not necessarily MY family history, they are just history.
Parents send there daughter to a "baby-nursing college" in Chicago. The young lady is so excited about her career and being able to care for infants. The program is straight forward, the dorm is attached to a hospital and the learning is hands-on. Only one problem, the Headmistress or Dean of this institution is a madame. Students are forced into prostitution. Little learning takes when the fleet is in. The young lady that was so excited about acceptance into this establishment of higher learning refuses to participate but doesn't want to go home in seeming disgrace. She stays on caring for the babies, never allowed time off campus, food withheld, suffering emotional, mental and physical abuse. This continues for months, until the madame decides to force the issue. A client is chosen to make this girl into a woman. She cannot describe what happened after the door to the supply closet was closed. Her next memory is waking in her own home in the care of her family doctor. She has no recollection of the incident. It takes sometime for her to regain her mental and physical health.
Teach your children they are worthy of humane treatment. That no one is allowed to use them. Teach them where to find help.
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