tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post6038103308894361441..comments2024-03-26T12:19:52.801-04:00Comments on Tea at Trianon: The Bon Secours Scandalelena maria vidalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17129629173535139807noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-30376254342245032222014-06-06T07:26:14.039-04:002014-06-06T07:26:14.039-04:00Thank you for your wise insights. I agree.Thank you for your wise insights. I agree.elena maria vidalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17129629173535139807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-45269841544223404732014-06-06T06:06:52.784-04:002014-06-06T06:06:52.784-04:00I'm a lot less upset, maybe because I have wor...I'm a lot less upset, maybe because I have worked too many years with the poor in Africa and the USA, my children were adopted as pre teens from a similar type institution in Colombia that trained orphans to work in a trade, and now I live in the Philippines. <br /><br />Hello! Ireland was a poor third world country at the time, and single mothers could simply not raise their kids alone. The sisters did their best with a limited budget to allow the moms to get on with their lives and give the children a home. What was the alternative? Mom as a prostitute and the kids growing up on the street, as we see here in Asia, or in Eastern Europe (whose economic level today is probably a bit better than 1930 Ireland).<br /><br />Frank McCourt tells how he lost two siblings to infection in Angela's Ashes. He also relates a friend dying of TB. England had work houses and Anglican laundaries for their unwed mothers up to the 1950's. Context please.<br /><br /> Philomena is a sob story, but she was left free to restart her life and become a nurse, and her son grew up in a loving family. But no one tries to look at the alternatives.<br /><br />Finally, there is a lot of horror about the dead children's bodies being found in a septic tank. That part of the story stinks to high heaven for technical reasons.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17171868717884718723noreply@blogger.com