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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Lane3 who wrote (93799)1/5/2005 12:39:19 PM
From: Neeka   of 793759
 
I do have a very dear friend that was born and raised in Palau Micronesia who was fostered by her sister. The environment in her birth home was so disruptive that she ended up being raised by her sister. Her father had multiple partners, and she has sisters and brothers all over the island by different mothers.

She has never revealed why, but her father once chased her through the jungle with a machete and nearly killed her. She said that she carried the stigma of being what we consider a "bastard" or illegitimate in her village. The people of Palau are predominately Catholic, so I can understand the angst she suffers because of her situation while growing up.

Fortunately she met a wonderful man from my area that was in Palau doing a US govt survey on the main runway. They dated and got preggers, and as a consequence got married, moved back to Seattle, had another child and are the proud grandparents of 5.

The women of Palau are forbidden to utter a peep during child birth. It dishonors their family if they do. She went through 41 hours of labor with their first son....being tended by the village mid-wife and her attendees. My friend is so proud of that achievement, but still carries the scars of being a bastard.

This was an impoverished nation during her childhood, and she actually thought that people that could afford canned food were wealthy.

I think being married before having children is mostly a western idea, but that is changing. I've been to 9 weddings in the last two years. At two of them the children of those unions were the ring bearers, and at one, the mother was 3 months pregnant.

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