re: #49 freetoken

Looking at the Texas Tribune blog on the abortion vote, one very Godly commentor left this little tidbit in an answer:

BRING BACK ORPHANAGES!!

My mom and her two brothers would have disagreed with that idea. My grandma died when Mom was 6 months old. At that time (1915), it was universally believed that a widower was incapable of raising his children alone. So, my uncles were sent to a boy’s home on Long Island and my mom was in an orphanage for years until she was fostered out as a teenager. Let’s just say none of them had very fond memories of rosy times in the orphanages.