the rise of suicide in middle aged white America: retirement no longer bonus, but time of struggle

[truedelphi]

63. But I think it might be a chicken vs egg question - which came first?

I know two very conservative RW people - both were tortured as children.

One of them grew up in the 1950's in Chicago - by the age of three, she was totally responsible for her 11 month old brother. Her dad was an alcoholic and her mom had left.

I'd certainly embrace Jesus and be RW and have nightmares if that had been my childhood. (I too had grown up in Chicago in the 1950's. But there the resemblance ends. I had two very loving parents and never had to do more than set the kitchen table, at the age of eight.)

The other one is a close family member now age thirty who had been taken from her home of birth by Child Protective Agency. By the time she was eight, it was being claimed that she had attempted to murder her new foster brother. Luckily for her, she got one of the better foster family agency people to investigate what had really gone on with the foster brother. And that person then adopted her.

But she too has embraced Jesus. I imagine she has nightmares, as would any of us if by the age of eight, we were yanked from our home of origin due to somewhat bogus claims of child abuse, put into the nightmare that is the foster care agency "care system" and then been yanked from the new home due to her "having attempted to murder her foster brother."