We have 8 persons in my husband’s & my family who all were adopted out of some state’s foster care system. From what I can tell, their moms were girls/women mostly withoutfamily support. Some were strippers. Some abused substances. Some sold or gave away themselves with little or no discrimination in a repeat cycle of pregnancy/giving up the child to the state.
I don’t have exact stats available, but I can generally tell you that these kids came from strippers (considered a “gateway profession” to prostitution), confused teenage girls who were unable to take care of the child —or whose new boyfriend forced them to give the child up, and prostitute and/or girl on drugs who was second generation foster care & probably had no clue what a father or a good man was.
Women/girls on the edge, with no apparent family to help them when pregnant, definitely no decend dad figure, some with repeated pregnancies (shortly after their first ovulation). Whether the men who slept with them paid cash or not, these women/girls are noted for not having a clue on how to meet and pick a good and unselfish man. They don’t know how to distinguish between a man wanting them sexually and true & unselfish love, for who is around to show t hem what unselfish love from a man is?
Thus, I have started wondering about the socially unpopular women in the Bible like the rather dubious woman at the well, and of course Jesus’ great ancestress, Rahab the former prostitute.
If you research online (I used the words ‘prostitution research’) you would get testimonies of the greatest possible tragedy. Women/girls who have major psychological damage, who are much more subject to death by violent crime, who suffer the loss of children to the foster care system in many cases…it is truly heart breaking.
The amendment in t he US constitution re the abolition of slavery is still a right that needs to be enforced, for some prostitutes are in a kind of slavery to their pimp.
this background (and any other background on outcast women you might know or find by research), Jesus’ kind and respectful treatment of such women/girls on the edge stands out even more beautifully. [/b:13cf6d6d58]
He knows where the victims are. And He cares for them.
But what are we doing about them and this whole t ragic situation???
vanlee
Jan 19 2005
10:32 pm
We have 8 persons in my husband’s & my family who all were adopted out of some state’s foster care system. From what I can tell, their moms were girls/women mostly withoutfamily support. Some were strippers. Some abused substances. Some sold or gave away themselves with little or no discrimination in a repeat cycle of pregnancy/giving up the child to the state.
I don’t have exact stats available, but I can generally tell you that these kids came from strippers (considered a “gateway profession” to prostitution), confused teenage girls who were unable to take care of the child —or whose new boyfriend forced them to give the child up, and prostitute and/or girl on drugs who was second generation foster care & probably had no clue what a father or a good man was.
Women/girls on the edge, with no apparent family to help them when pregnant, definitely no decend dad figure, some with repeated pregnancies (shortly after their first ovulation). Whether the men who slept with them paid cash or not, these women/girls are noted for not having a clue on how to meet and pick a good and unselfish man. They don’t know how to distinguish between a man wanting them sexually and true & unselfish love, for who is around to show t hem what unselfish love from a man is?
Thus, I have started wondering about the socially unpopular women in the Bible like the rather dubious woman at the well, and of course Jesus’ great ancestress, Rahab the former prostitute.
If you research online (I used the words ‘prostitution research’) you would get testimonies of the greatest possible tragedy. Women/girls who have major psychological damage, who are much more subject to death by violent crime, who suffer the loss of children to the foster care system in many cases…it is truly heart breaking.
The amendment in t he US constitution re the abolition of slavery is still a right that needs to be enforced, for some prostitutes are in a kind of slavery to their pimp.
this background (and any other background on outcast women you might know or find by research), Jesus’ kind and respectful treatment of such women/girls on the edge stands out even more beautifully. [/b:13cf6d6d58]He knows where the victims are. And He cares for them.
But what are we doing about them and this whole t ragic situation???