Threatening my parents’ lives if they took us away from our family was actually a sane decision on the part of me and my brothers. It was protecting ourselves and younger siblings. We were kids. None of us were over ten. We had to have access to food, water, medicine, etc., which we didn’t have dragged out into the country away from our family where these things would be provided or away from ways to get money or stores to buy goods in. We had already figured out Mom and Dad weren’t reliable about these things.
ZPG just want to say thanks for sharing this. It’s very different to everything I’m used to but you don’t deserve to be insulted just for coming from a culture with values that seem alien to people like me (and judging from the reactions of other posters, them).
Do you still live as part of an extended family group?
Simple, you’re new here, aren’t you? Trust me, the posters’ reactions have to do with a long and, um, interesting history of the OP. Just thought I’d give you a head’s up.
Or women who shake hands are sluts, and men who shake women’s hands are rapists? And adopted children need to announce their adoptive status to everyone they come in contact with so they can be properly shunned? Or a man is allowed (practically commanded) to kill women who’ve gotten pregnant by him and refuse to have an abortion?
There’s so much to choose from the poor Cliff Notes are going to read like a novel.
You know nothing about my family or culture. For most of human history people lived in extended families. It’s a much more stable and safe environment for children. My extended family and to a certain extent the rest of my people was what protected, cared, for and raised me and my siblings. If left in the care of our parents we would have either died or been dumped into the foster care system.