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What an incredible thing to do - to steal someone's child and raise it and love it as your own. Why didn't they adopt orphans? Were there none?
by givemeethekeys 4y ago
What an incredible thing to do - to steal someone's child and raise it and love it as your own.
Why didn't they adopt orphans? Were there none?
- lifeisstillgood 4y agoThe article touches on this - the practise began with orphans (from the regiemes executions!) and illegitimate children from poor single mothers handed over to the church. But as social mores changed in the sixties, single parenting was not such a social stigma and so the "supply" dried up. At this point the church had people "alongside" management of hospitals etc, so the institutions were compromised, and the next more awful step could go forward. It's interesting to compare the institutions being compromised by putting idealogues in hierarchical power with Hitler and the SA / SS. It seems that is the "playbook".
- pyuser583 4y agoSingle parenting wasn’t stigmatized in 1960s Spain?
- qikInNdOutReply 4y agoMost orphans are damaged goods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_alcohol_spectrum_disorder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_alcohol_spectrum_disorde... It seems understandable, to not pour yourselve into 15 years of trouble for nothing.
- actionfromafar 4y agoI think you are mixing things here, this [0] is probably more insightful. 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=33004828&goto=item%3Fid%3D33003434%2333004828 https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=33004828&goto=item%3Fi...
- pessimizer 4y agoThese children were often made orphans before being adopted.