Ага, вот тут не только за страну надо бороться, тут еще надо за дочек побороться, чтоб они действительно были human beings, а не пиздой с голосом.
...Бедный Афган, злоебучая Америка. Как же было не стыдно, отбросить целую страну в средневековье. Да, вообще, нет больше пакости, чем кому-то помешать развиваться. Самое непростительное. А тут...
Today for Women's History Month, from "Sex Crimes: Now":
“A year after the rape and a few weeks before her eighteenth birthday Sky hit rock bottom, wandering away from home in a half-catatonic state. Some girls who knew her kept her hidden in their bedroom for the weekend until their extraordinary mother discovered her. That mother called Child Protective Services and Sky was taken to a teen shelter” ... [until the mother could arrange the legal formalities to accept Sky into her home and family.]
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I didn’t think it was any accident that the teenager who had wound up most surrounded by love in the years after her rape was the most able to let a jury see her pain. One of the most beautiful sentences my husband ever wrote reads, “If we call birth a miracle, what greater word do we have for adoption?” The woman who took Sky in at her lowest hour will always be one of my heroes.”