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Aug 24, 2022, 11:53 PM
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Member Since: Jul 2019
Location: Downtown Vibes, California
Posts: 15,701
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Originally Posted by Nammu
Holy cow! How would a 12 yr old know if they were pregnant? I surely hope they would report it to child services!
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My aunt, my mother's younger sister, was pregnant at the age of 12. My aunt told my mother, "Sis, something is wrong with me because I haven't had my monthly in a long time." My mother told her she needed to tell mama. Well, my grandmother was snobby. She didn't want anyone to find out about her daughter's pregnancy and my grandfather would have done whatever my grandmother decided.
They put my aunt in a "home for unwed mothers." Her baby girl was born a few months later, in 1939. My mother saw her and always remarked about how beautiful she was. The baby was adopted out. The boy's family apparently had no say in any of it.
My mother hated her mother for not keeping the baby and raising her. Truly hated her for it. She never could forgive my grandmother - and I can't blame my mother for how she felt.
My aunt married when she was 17, she married a really decent fellow and they had a solid marriage, including four children. Sadly, my aunt's husband died of a heart attack when he was in his late 50's. My aunt grieved terribly for him. When she was 60 years old she sui. That was 37 years ago. I miss her very much, she had a terrific personality and about the best sense of humor of anyone I've ever known.
Ironically, I used to live in the neighborhood where that "home" still stands. I did a lot of research on it. Back in 1939 the place was outside of town, but the city had grown up around the place. By the time I lived there it was in the middle of a nice neighborhood. It's a large place, like a great, big house. It functioned as a home for unwed mothers until - get this - 1983! So young women were still being sent to such places less than forty years ago. The place is now a residence for seniors.
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