She Married Her Son. How Could It Happen? The Complete Documentary
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2016
- My team and I made this PBS television special, Sins Of Our Mothers based on an interview that I had done way back in the mid-1970s with 89 year old reporter Nettie Mitchell . The documentary tells the story of Emmeline - and the story is amazing. Without her knowledge, Emmeline sinned and paid a heavy price for it. The director of this documentary Rocky Collins was young but very very talented when he made this. It has a unique slow and strange Puritan New England tempo and mood that absolutely fits the story and how Nettie told it. When this was recorded in 1976, Nettiehad an excellent memory and was a very serious reporter who cared about telling the truth exactly as she saw it. She had spent a lifetime doing it.
Every rural area in the country and certainly in Maine has its folktales. Some commentators on this video say that this is a folktale and that it couldn't have happened. Nettie personally met and dealt with Emmeline and it or something very much like it did happen. It is possible that some details are incorrect although we spent more than six months researching it when we did made documentary and some of those who met Emmeline were still alive.
Sex in Puritan culture was a sin under most circumstances. Women were certainly seen as of less value and importance than men. Remember The Scarlet Letter. Some commentators have pointed out that the Puritan sect of Christianity had long disappeared in Manie but in my experience as a person who lived in Maine in a small town for more than 20 years, some of the values are held by a segment of the people who live in these towns today. The concept of sin. The concept of sinful sex. The concept of women as less than. And more.
Many commentators have pointed out the connection between this story and Oedipus. Unquestionably true. - Фільми й анімація
I am getting worried about my UA-cam history because my recommendation keeps getting weirder and jaw dropping!
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At first I thought the lady on the thumbnail was the one who married her son.... 😳🤣🤣
Ditto
Same
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First her parents sent her off alone, an older man basically raped her at age 14, baby born and given/taken away, she was sent home, did not date, met and married a younger man. Found out it was her son, divorced him, her family and the town turned their backs on her. She was told that she was a sinner. Who’s the sinner?????The freakin Town and her family!!!!!!
Yes so true
Agreed @Fran Mack
Agree
Religion is a scam.
Thank you for saving me an hr of my life
If you feel bad about Emmeline. Just know there are people today who have no one, alone, outcast, for whatever reason. If you see someone alone, befriend them. That’s the best way to pay emmeline back.
Thank you
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So true. It's the best thing u can give someone, a little empathy goes a long way!
I love this❤
@@kpeezyforsheezy Definitely not a Dr Drew fan at all BUT something he said way back stuck with me bc it so true.
"The world would be a better place if everyone had an ounce of empathy."
When I married in the early mid 1970's, he revealed to me that I was his property and he could do as he liked to me and any children that would later come. For example for over a decade I was only allowed 2 pair of underwear, one to wear, one to wash... I shall not say all the horrors he subject my children and myself to.
It took me over 14 years to get my children and myself away from the evil man, the devil itself he was.
A horrible story that sickens me. I am glad you have gotten past him.
David Hoffman filmmaker
I'm glad you got away from h8m
I am so sorry you went through that. Very glad you were able to get away.
Maybe that ******* former husband is now in prison rotting in a jail cell, in preparation for the Final Judgment when he rots in Hell, etarnally.
We can only hope…
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"There is no greater poverty than being unwanted, uncared for, and unloved."
so true It happens in todays World more than ever.
So true 😔
Your words are so touching and so true made me cry
@@johnbrotherton9012 very true, my love x
Same in Norway. Children had to work at the farm as small kids, or had to work other places as servants. It was so far into the 20 the century. It's all not so good traditions comming from us here in Scandinavia and Europe. Including not treating children well like giving spankings. Travelling over to America people became even more ultra religious. One can see it even to day in America. So much religious fanatism.
As a child, I never imagined that all of the real monsters in the world would be *HUMANS*
What books did you read?
your so right
They are!
I did. But I tried not to believe it.
Yeh and a lot of them are your parents.
I let it be known that I was being molested by my grandfather and some uncles and my family just doesn't talk to me and this was years ago I'm 46 years old now and if it wasn't for my kids I would be by myself people can be really cruel but as long as you don't let that make you cruel you'll come out all right because I'm fine no I have a warm heart I'll do anything for anybody my kids adore me my neighbors Adore me it's just the family they don't want to discuss the truth so that made me an outcast
My mother was molested by her grandfather. No one believed her either. It really damaged her, may she Rest In Peace.
You are NOT an outcast. Your family is. You should have gone complete public. My dad would have had a shit fit if that were happening to me
@@ellavek1998 I agree with you. I was molested by mum mum (who is a social worker.) and my family cut me off
You know what.. you're an amazing woman nd blessed .. The karma brewing for THEM won't be nothing nice .. Best believe. There's a special place in HELL for scummy despicable ppl who abuse children. Smh. God bless You honey...
Mikel, sometimes the trash takes itself out. You’re better off without the ones who shun you, believe me. Stay well and stay faithful. You’re on the right path. ❤️
Nettie seems like she was a wonderful child, who grew up to be a compassionate old woman who felt it was important for people to hear the sad story of Emmeline. ❤️
The beginning is just priceless. 3:45:
"When where you born?"
"I was born a 103 years ago, you figure it out."
😍🤗 Reminds me of my grandmother when I would ask her how old she was: "I don't know, baby. I think I'm 94 or 5 or 6. Idk ninety-something. Maybe..."
I literally recorded that moment n sent it to my friends
1885 or 1886.
mauherkan cos she did not know how to add herself lol
I didn’t catch that at first. 😂 Sassy old lady.
I really hate that Emma’s sister exclaimed “she finally paid for her sins” at her own sister’s funeral. That’s atrocious
You are so right!! Hopefully that self righteous monster paid the ultimate price.She should have stayed away..
I agree! That’s the part that made me the most upset aside from what happened to the poor thing as a woman and as a little girl growing up.
@MysticSkullivine .. I agree. People who act like they're God are the least Godly.
Still today, people look the other way, to save their own buts. The whole world revolves around majority following the rule makers like sheep, too afraid to speak up, too afraid to be unpopular, its actually disgusting. Majority is mostly wrong.
I’m furious.
The Bachilers are my ancestors. Rev Stephan is also Emmeline’s ancestor so we are distant cousins. What a fascinating and heartbreaking story. I’m glad I found this. The more we talk abt things once considered taboo the more educated we become and prevent tragedies like this from happening. 🙏🏻❤️
Have you ever done a DNA test to see how close you are to Emmiline?
Like a Greek tragedy. She must've felt cursed. Lucky they didn't burn her at the stake as a witch. Very depressing.
Nowadays many kids are trafficked and killed during rituals.
She didn't have an incestuous relationship with her son. A census record from 1880 states that her husband was 12 years older than her.
@@elph77 they said she had two marriages. One of them for 20 years.
I’m 53 years old and found out my grandmother was a child bride from Georgia. My grandfather was 21 and my grandmother was 11. She had my father at 12. How does one process this? How am I supposed to feel? Almost wish they had kept that secret.
I'll pray for you and you pray for me too I know all too well about learning things about your family that you wish you could un-hear
You shouldn't feel bad . People waste to much time of life .
Life is traumatic. Processing the trauma is different for everyone. I did therapy. It helped.
Are you having difficulty because you loved your grandfather and are having a hard time with that love now? What was your grandmother like? Did they stay together until one of them passed?
It is a pity that she lost her childhood in having children.
Child marriage has long been an issue in America. These days most states want you to be 17 or 18, but it’s not well regulated.
The main question, though, is did they love one another? Did they basically have a good life?
If they did, then it worked out in the end.
If you are a person of compassion, and it seems like it, some of it came from your upbringing. If your Grandmother raised your Dad that way, it was partly because she loved him and wanted him to be a good man!
Take heart. Teen mothers do wish now and then that they’d started later, but they still love their babies very much!!
What the heck was wrong with those people????? Emmeline never committed a sin, the moment she and her son found out who the other was, they both divorced, it was a mistake, not a sin!!
and its sad they didn't have a mother son relationship at least :(
@@beatrixthegreat1138 I agree, they should have been allowed to pursue as mother and son, but I can only imagine that it would have been quite awkward afterward. Poor Emmeline just flat out got the short end of the stick in life, I sure hope she is happy in heaven, she deserves it. bless her heart.....
God help Emmeline. I bet her son was shocked and shattered.
ᔕωєєтᙡιℓℓσω those days were brainwashed. Men brainwashed woman. "It's always a womans fault". Men ALWAYS had the POWER over women. Woman were severely brainwashed im sure they not only lived in fear but were most likely desensitized- im surely even their emotions were controlled by the asshole men!
Back in the 60s my aunt was 70 years old , a neighbor 20 years old raped her. people treated her so bad
even saying that she caused it.
Not only is the poor woman completely innocent, the town's people are guilty of killing her.
I bet she had dreams of moving far away and starting her life over, that’s my plan. I can’t put it into words the horrible pain of being outcasted but it’s true, my life has turned out a lot like Emmaline’s. I’ve never had anyone to call good friend. The one decent family member I had has died, My father made him mentally handicapped, that was my darling brother my two sisters are the golden children. I am the black sheep, scapegoated, ostracized, My mother told the police she didn’t want to see me when she was dying. She didn’t have dementia, she was fully aware, it is not what she intended to happened she was manipulated by my older sister in that sisters to Sons. The reason is the rest of my family banded me and my identical twin from my mothers deathbed for no reason, my father was a malignant narcissist, and for the most part the rest of the family was as well. My mother had developed Stockholm syndrome. I have really healed I only cried a little bit during this, I don’t have the luxury of being upset and hurt anymore it’s all about survival. My identical twin sister did a 18 year shame in smear campaign on me which is still going on and my older sister has her own shame and smear campaign against me as well. There are people who hate me that I don’t even know, they just hear lies from others and family who hate me. I tried to go to church, the pastor’s wife embarrassed me in front of everyone questioning me about why I don’t go to church more often, I was sick for the first 50 years of my life, so even gas/fuel to drive to church is unaffordable. I’m 51 years old I have regained some of my health and strength, life is better than it ever has been. My head is so messed up about weather people would ever like me or not that being in settings with other people who just too painful and I get sensitive my perceptions get distorted at the same time my perceptions are correct, I don’t fit in. I asked the pastor to lay hands on me to help me bc of some back pain, to pray for me, to give me some hands on healing, he asked someone else to do it for him relaying that I was demon possessed, that person didn’t want to do it either. Upon learning that while feeling desperate I caught the ear of someone who was unaware of what I just mentioned above, I got this person to lay hands on me and she prayed for me. And in my desperation I told this person briefly my entire life story in matter of several minutes just the highlights of my life. Felt good to get it out it always feels good to talk about it I’ve never had psychiatric help they always wanted to put me on pills not for me, but the people who hurt me on pills not me. Unfortunately this person was way too afraid to hardly ever speak to me again, She even walked away for me while I was talking on another occasion after that. I had committed to going to church for a one year every Monday night classes so this happened twice, twice class was canceled, no one told me, I was the only one that showed up the second time, guess they don’t realize how broke I am and that it wasted my gas/fuel twice when I am in the fight for my life to play catch-up after being sick for 50 years. Pls Don’t feel bad for me I had a near-death experience when I was four years old, and I’ve had my solid proof of God since I was blessed to have this experience ever since. As for my future I’m going to give it my best shot and go after some things I’ve always wanted I have my health back, my days are really short. I have so much to do I’m overwhelmed I don’t know how I’m going to get it done in the short time frame. I isolate because I’m too afraid to be hurt. If I could only convince myself that I don’t need anyone to love me, that’s what I’m working on. I can tell you she/Emmaline brought the chickens in the house for two reasons, one for companionship the other was to protect them. I can tell you it was hard for her to eat them and I can tell you that she had no choice but to eat her chickens. I could tell you that she probably cried a lot, I can also tell you at the same time she was very strong from having gone through all that she had gone without. I can tell you that it hurts her that her family sent her way and that she wanted someone to love her, that she thought it would be easier when she got older to get the love that she didn’t get as a child. I can tell you that she had a lot of love to give. It was said that she was approached by children taking her goods and that she was very sweet, I can tell you this is true because she would have given anything to have made a connection with a single person as we humans naturally want to have a connection with another soul. I can tell you since everyone thought the worst of her that she went out of her way to be really good and not even have negative thoughts, because this is what you do when your own family thinks that you are worthless and dislikes you. Hideous that adults sent children to check on her. Ridiculous that people didn’t want anything to do with her but they wanted to go to her funeral. My identical twin sister, a malignant narcissist never let me know her now young adult three kids, two of which are a set of twins, my older sister would not let me know her two kids either. They have seen meet in public and looked away when I waved in the past, it was extremely painful. Recently my identical twin sisters twin daughters’ boss And his wife invited me to come see my niece At the restaurant she works at as a hostess, I hope that I can finally finally establish a relationship/friendship and be a part of her life, wish me luck pray for us, I hope so. I’m scared, I found out about a month ago about where she works, I’m trying to get past Christmas I made it past Thanksgiving I don’t want to approach the situation during the holidays because it would be awkward especially painful if I don’t get a holiday invite because it’s too close to the holidays, maybe I’m just making excuses because I’m scared maybe I should just buy three gifts and wrap them and take them over there to their home. The kids have moved out of my sisters home and in with their father, so I won’t have to deal with my narcissistic twin who hates me, it’s not safe to try to have a relationship with her btw, if I even had the option. Oh yeah I absolutely have tried over and over it’s not gonna happen, not my choice, wasn’t my choice in the past but it is my choice now, don’t want a single thing to do with her, forgive and move on. Emmaline’s sister was said to have raised her hand saying she paid her debt, why couldn’t she stand up and do that for her sister while her sister was still alive, and do it in front of Emmaline? It is so painful when your own family doesn’t want you like you love you, it’s very difficult to realize/imagine that anyone else would care to when your own family wants nothing to do with you. I screwed up family we’ll always try to fix it self by scapegoating at least one family member, to put the blame on them. She was manipulated by the rich boss, she wanted someone to love her. And again is any of this is true is it all just rumors? Whadda these darn ppl really truly kno?!? There is a very good chance that none of this is true, I’m sure it has happened somewhere in history but there is absolutely no proof here, closest thing to it is these old people who remember taking her items when she was a white haired little old lady, but were the parents telling these kids to take her goods just passing judgment on her based on rumors and lies? Absolutely it is very possible that none of her sins that she is accused of is even a bit true.
Thanks for reading, I don’t have anyone to talk to so it feels better to get it out. The most important thing that I have recently finally got my brain wrapped around is this, for every action there is equal reaction and I must be happy if I want to get happy back in return. I must remember that if I do think or manifest anything negative that’s what I will get back. So my plan is as I move forward to focus on love when I am confronted w life’s daily struggles. ThankYou for your prayers thank you☮️💕🌷
RIP EMILY
SkaterGrl51 Sav’h Wow!!! And I'm mad cause my family cares so much they're smothering me!!! I don't like to talk much unless I have something important to say, but if u need someone to listen, I'm here. Nobody should be so alone😊. Love and light from the islands😊😊😊
@@skatergrl51savh45feeling sad god bless u
So true they did kill her in my way of thinking!
Spoiler alert
I'm just so glad that Emmeline had Nettie to tell her story with love and compassion. It doesn't make up for what she went through but at least Emmeline no longer lives in ignominy and shame. The lack of compassion from her people is truly heartbreaking but at least she rests with Nettie's love.
Nettie told the story so beautifully. Made me cry a little.
Yes, exactly! Emeline's story Breaks my heart. I Had To post this & share it on Facebook page.
Emmeline is in the arms of Jesus getting more love than a human can comprehend. As far as her sister I feel that is the parents fault for teaching her wrong and that when something horrible happens to you it is never the victims fault like my family makes me out to be because my brother and 2 cousins molested me as a child. Of course they lied about it and now my family has abandoned me when I have Complex Regional Pain Syndrome which is the most painful disease that exists and they won't even take me to get an operation that I desperately need. They call me crazy because I got PTSD at the age of 9 and was never given any help. This story is so sad I could cry except for the thought that she'll never have any type of pain again and never shead another tear.
This story will remain with me for the rest of my life. Life is hard and sometimes cruel. May Emmeline rest in peace.
Whe I was in my early teens my dad became a pastor of a church in small town pa there was one beautiful young girl in the church that people talked about behind her back saying she was a whore and no good but she was kind to me I was always left out of play by other kids ,but she would always invite me . after some time I found out she was being molested by her stepfather a "deacon" in the church I told my dad a d he started looking Into what was going on and then contacted the police, but the girls stepdad was well liked in the community so it was swept under the rug, and the church fired my dad now I see that beautiful young woman now aged by drugs a trauma ,I feel terrible I didnt do more. Sorry for poor punctuation
A tragic story. Beautifully told. Thank you.
David Hoffman filmmaker
You did all you could as did your family, honored to hear about your braveness and kind heart, you knew right from wrong and did all you could to help her as did you father who God has a special place in heaven for, thank you for standing up to wrong.
@@joannahernandez4608 its something that gets overlooked everyday we have only moment to do what's right if one person reads this and helps someone may that cycle can continue and break the other.
I could have been that girl in another life. I was sexually abused most of my life by my classmates as well as older people. I was constantly called a whore too. I know you feel bad, but you might still be able to do something. Have you considered reaching out and saying what you said?
@@ossianatepfenhart7022 this happened 30 years ago about 10 years after it happened I seen her one day she had started using hard drugs I tried to get her some helped but the more I tried the more she pushed away she moved and I had lost contact I've tried over the years to find her without any luck.it was hard seeing her go down that path I pray to one day see her again health an healing
May everyone watching this story take it heart and use it as an example of how not to treat people.
What goes around comes around! The wrong that you do comes back to you!
Two cousin of my, whose family were separated due to an argument.They met at work,fall in love and on the wedding day, they discovered that they were family,they decided to marry in spite that the whole family walked out the wedding .Their marriage never lasted three months.Now they were sure stupid because they knew
@@sisteroflight I find myself torn on this subject. The awful stuff that is happening to a person ....is this payback for stuff they did in a previous life ?
Why do we need to know all this evil crab in the world nothing new it repeats itself best never hear about it at all find better happy things and let by gone be by gone in some normal believes that some of us still have
Poor Emalline. RIP
It’s not “ Sins of our mothers” it’s crimes committed by men if anything. Guess they didn’t know better back in the days. I wouldn’t call them Christians though cause it’s nothing Christian about how they treated that poor, poor lady.
The most patriarchal societies always have the least sympathetic views towards the plight of women & girls. I think it is interesting how they say Emmeline "yeilded" to the older man when she was 13, but the reality was that rape & sexual abuse of poor girls was very common during these times and that when girls became pregnant, it was they who were blamed for it, often with the view that even if it was rape, the girl "asked" for the abuse in some way or another (and what amounted to "asking" for it could be any number of slight or unavoidable factors). I also hate this view that if you grow up around animals then you are not innocent about sex, because it really isn't always like that.
Sadly, cultures like these (slut shaming, rape blaming, ocstracisation of women, sexualization of underage girls, etc) still persist in many places even in American society today.
@@92fc Yes they do but in the case of this video it’s not the sins of our mother is it?
Relijin was created by man to divide & control the people 😡
The sad part of this story is ....its still happening to this very day! My heart aches knowing there are old people who are out there hungry, cold, alone. Nothing ever changes. Humans are capable of such great things...n yet...we're so cruel.
humans can be so horrid is very sad
@@jax993 Exactly. They will wring their hands talking about a century ago, but wouldn’t cross the street to do a kind deed for the worst off among us.
We have pseudo scientists preaching humanity descends from Africans running prestigious colleges without thinking about reality. Until this stops the problems will continue.
My Grandmother grew up on a pig farm during the Great Depression and her Father owned a mill. Her Uncle had fruit trees and during the depression my Grandma and her sisters would go to their Uncle’s house to get peaches. In return, their Uncle would molest them and grope them in “exchange” for the fruit. My Grandma’s sister was raped at 12 years old by their Uncle and she had their baby at 13 years old. When news got out, people would drive to their house in hopes to get a look at the “bastard child”. She was blamed and shunned for having the child. She was treated like a freak show. Nothing was done to the Uncle, as their father did not know his brother was the father until the bastard had finally died.
My Great Aunt took great care of that child and he is a wonderful person. I hate to hear what the women of my family, and many others, went through during these times JUST TO SURVIVE.
Curious gossipers are evil beings. Poor Auntie! So much pain in this World-not asked for-not deserved.
@@joycebrannen1943 dammit...I wanna puke at the fact some kid marries his mother
These happened to ALOT of people around that time.añd was swep under a rug.hopefully all these victims are in a better place
Your Great Aunt is a hero..
Thank you for the sharing. It’s a sad, but very real of the world that is not far away. Reality is more strange and grotesque than the ficcional stories. Again, thank you, and a kiss from Portugal 🇵🇹
What happened to this woman is utterly disgusting. The thought of her finding and falling in love with her boy is so heart breaking, they must have been longing for each other before they met. They didn’t know and should not be equated with intentional incest. May you Rest In Peace sweetheart ❤️👼🏻
Very sad.. That poor little girl..
She would have been even too old to have children with him, so no third party would have suffered the consequences of a biologically incestuous relationship. Clearly a victimless crime.
Genetic Sexual Attraction is a real thing that sometimes happens between family members who meet for the first time after decades
Also, she most likely was raped wanting to stay away from men, yet, why wasn’t the man in authority condemned for raping her? She bore the outstanding blame as most women do because they’re the ones who get pregnant.
@@kattalady8114 I know an 80 year old man who is still married to his 78 year old cousin, this seems odd to me but I have since met many Mennonites who share similar stories... They are truly "equally yoked".
What a truly heartbreaking story. What the community did to her was simply deplorable.
Yes, it was.
I agree
Wow, what an incredibly sad story. I will never understand how the older generations would blame a minor for being taken advantage of/raped by an adult. It makes no sense to me. Also, it's very clear that Emmeline had no idea that the man she married was related to her. It's so frustrating to hear how her people treated her. If only we could go back in time and make things right...
The saddest part is the fact that Emerlines was taken advantage of, at such a young age, by a man who promised her family a better life for her. 🙁🙁😞
This is a horrible, heartbreaking story. Poor Emmaline was failed by everyone from the youngest age. I hope she rests peacefully, and knows the world now stands with her.
Shabazz Rgt Peace from God, from faith, from no longer enduring cruelty. It isn't a cliche. It's hope. If you have none then just pass on by instead of perpetuating more negativity on her. That's all I'll say--- I don't have time to waste on people who have no hope or faith.
For sure Vickie
@@vickiehaper4615 Aren't you Vickie?
I wish her son had gone to see her and made sure she was all right.
I knew a man many years ago who was adopted. He said he used to fantasise about finding his mother, having sex with her and then telling her who he was. I was horrified to hear his thoughts about it. He said that the reality of meeting her was entirely different (thank goodness) and that he understood how difficult things were for unmarried mothers back in the day.
Bless the hearts and souls of these old ladies who chose to document this story about humanity in its rawest form. It's so kind to hear the story of the little girl walking the snacks to Emeline ❤️ I hope we all love those around us a little better after this ❤️
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uhmm she married her son? you are a rare bird to see that simple and beautiful act..and I pray that I always see the positive like you do..God bless
Today, I somehow came upon this documentary about Emeline Gurney. The story of her life brought tears to my eyes. Emeline's birthday, January 30, is two days after my birthday. She was an Aquarius. Also, I noticed Nettie Mitchell passed away on my mother's birthday, March 7. My mother is deceased and has a brother named Mitchell who is alive and well. I am an empath. I love and care for people. GOD BLESS Emeline and Nettie. May they dwell in HEAVEN WITH GOD, JESUS AND ALL OTHER BENEVOLENT ANGELS FOR ALL OF ETERNITY! 🙏❤️💕😢
I, too, came upon this powerful docu-drama! Goddess bless Nettie Mitchell. Aren't we glad for that one true compassionate soul? I know that I am.
I am so sorry, Emmeline. You were abused by more than one person and all the while you were the innocent one.
Maureen Nolan
All the beauty and kindness within her, will live on forever. Thank you for sharing!
This is so sad oh my God have mercy on all of us that would judge like that.
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How does someone just let someone starve too death and die alone? God love her she lived through hell on earth. Raped at 13 , her child taken away, then out casted her entire life and left too starve to death. I hope shes dancing and has plenty to eat and is laughing every second there is in her after life.
Reminds me of Ocey Snead
Why would she be eating in the afterlife?
@@theshoestringstrangla5547 cause food tastes good
So sad . Yet it still happens today
Sharon, while I certainly hope she gets rewarded by God, according to the Bible, Emeline is asleep for now, as everyone else, who has died. Only Jesus Christ remains resurrected. Ppl die and sleep. Also nobody turns into guardian angels after death, no matter how cute, noble, gentle, young or old they were. God has plenty of angels (millions). It is appointed unto men (ppl) once to die and then judgement. At judgement, God will either say, “well done” or “depart from me, I never Knew you!”. Only those who repent and seek God’s forgiveness and guidance in Jesus Christ will be able to receive an immortal body and never ending life in the new earth.
It’s heartbreaking to hear Emmeline’s story. Today we know that Genetic sexual attraction is not uncommon in cases like this and that it might me a byproduct of missed bonding. Our biggest enemy is ignorance. RIP Emmeline 🙏🏻
Inceist is wrong, but understanding how sexuality shines some light on it's reason. My mother told me some stuff about the first time as a young girl when she had sexual dreams, they were actually about her grandfather..and it kinda has to do with genetics playing a cruel joke. My father alao mentioned something similar as to that as I got older I would find my self attracted to a women like my mother and he said it's not uncommon and happens to alot of men.
This is disgusting. No way to make it okay. Anyway who can wrap their head around this is sick too!
@@MsAmique We can't blame either mother or son -- they had no idea!!!! These kinds of things happen sometimes... like a son coming home from college with his girlfriend & after a while his mother realized the girlfriend was actually a daughter she had given up for adoption. Or the daughter who had never known her father falling deeply in love with an older man... and they eventually discovered he was her father.
Poor woman. Poor girl. At first I was like "well of course she was shunned, she married her own son" but it wasn't on purpose. What a shame for her not only to be shunned, but to lose her whole lively hood because of a childhood mistake is really sad.
Gandhi said, "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. They are not very Christ-like."
So true!
Gandhi was a racist
@@GH-im3lj ghandi died in 1948 . He supported the apartheid regime in south Africa
@@GH-im3lj He was a vehement racist who supported white supremacist ideology. He will be remembered by Africans as such.
@@makubegysman6160 stop lying and go back to watching Fox Faux News..from you own mother's basement, of course.
@@makubegysman6160 and so, you have AT LEAST 8 other UA-cam accounts, you INCEL basement dweller.🙄
It never ceases to amaze me how people can use religion to be cruel.
Yes I agree, but it no longer surprolises me
Religion is evil
@Thomas Farrell indeed
Ontological Certainty:
The Great Enabler
Or were they cruel because of religion?
Yes, Debra. God commands us to be merciful and not judge others. We should be kind to others. We all sin.
I think Emmaline's story resonates today because there are people right now living extraordinarily similar lives. What a reality check for all of us. How do I treat others who are or perceive as different than I? Yes a predator could have attacked her chickens but they were also her companions 💔😔
Not gonna lie, I had poor expectations when reading the title but oh damn. What a sad story. Beautifully told.
The worst part is i wasn't really her fault
"really"...it was in no way her fault.
Let's drop "really". It absolutely wasn't her fault.
@@peggymorin8944 I totally agree. Though it would be a sad story I feel there should be a movie made of her life. Maybe it would soften hard hearted people and show others how blessed they are not to have lived in her day and time.
Emerline is a novel.
A must read. So sad to have had her childhood. She was not responsible for marrying her son. Emerline had
no knowledge that her husband was her son.
The people that asked her parents to let her work for them knew what they were doing.Why didn't they ask the father to work for them &send money home to his family?Those people planned to take advantage of that young girl all along.
😔😔😔 imagine being that young Nettie taking this little old lady some food and finding out later she died of starvation. 😞
It happened more than you think!!
Poor Emmeline. They weren't even aware that they were mother and son but treated like pariahs. I've been working in a group home for seniors that have special needs. When I first started there (2003), there was a woman there named Mary who was born in 1918. Her parents were brother and sister. I can't imagine the scandal.
As soon as she was born, Mary was whisked away and placed in an orphanage. I saw pictures of her. She was one of the prettiest babies that I have ever seen.The psychiatrists at the time said that she was developing at an average rate and where hoping that she could be placed for adoption.
She would be rejected as soon as all potential adoptive parents found out who her parents were. She was eventually institutionalized until the 40's when she moved to a group home with an organization that promoted a more of a community approach. I really believe that she would have had a very different kind of life had she been adopted from the orphanage.
She was would never initiate conversation--only answer questions when asked. ("Don't speak unless you're spoken to", was the way children were taught back in those times) Despite everything she was incredibly happy and well adjusted. She was 85 when I met her. I remember asking her if she could read and write. She said. "Not yet" We all loved her.❤
PS. Thank you for telling the world Emmeline's story❤
It's only appropriate to cry. What a touching story! The word ostracized was said many times in the story. My heart aches for Emmeline. May her soul continue to rest in peace. Sad! 😢
I would have been talking to chickens too if no one else in the world talked to me Great things about animals - they never judge you
Absolutely.. pure love
Think we're all guilty of speaking outloud to animals
Love it when people say what they "would have done." Easy to say from the year 2021 🙄
Tbf most big animals in the wikd are judging u..judging whether they can eat u or not
So sad ! To be ostrisized / Shunned ! Is an unbearable horrible thing for any people or persons one to another to do it is not of a Devine godly nature . But to be shunned away from all who you have loved after going through. hardship with an entire family is even worse ! I’m living it myself but have already forgiven all who have looked the other way ! It’s worse than Alzheimer’s. Because of the memory you have ! Alzheimer’s for those shunned away would be bliss. and a painless death !
My grandmother's mother died and her father remarried. The new wife didn't like my grandmother. So she was farmed out to help neighbors. My grandmother never had a doll so one day in her fifties she went to a thrift store and bought herself a doll. That doll sat on her coffee table for years till she died. It was so sad. She was three when her mother died and abused by her step mom. At eight she was passed from neighbor to neighbor. I don't know if she was given up because of the abuse but the irony of it was her father was a minister. I have her personal bible and she left many secret notes of her beliefs and wants. Broke my heart when I first read it. She was actually a tad confused on religion but had obviously not been taught by her father. I can't imagine her heart break knowing as a child she wasn't wanted. So sad.
Heartbreaking
It seems to me that so called Christian's back in the day were not very nice. Most Christian's theses days are nice people
Alright... go write a book
Awebreeze 0353 😞
georgina cat shut up
My grandfather was a woodcutter and he and his wife had 11 children and another on the way. The youngest child at 5hat time was my mother but the baby yet to be born would become her younger sister in a couple of months. My grandfather would go out for a few days at a time, but this time he was overdue. Woodcutters would paint the tree stump with arsenic and it appeared that he’d cut himself with his axe and arsenic had entered his blood stream. By the time he’d been found, he’d tried to crawl out for some days, but succumbed to the poison and the injury. He was dead. My grandmother had to bring up 12 children without any government help for widows. She took in washing and grew vegetables to sell. It was a tough life in those days, though there were older brothers and sisters to help. Times were different.
I have no trouble believing this story as I know people had to fend for themselves. It is a shame she didn’t know she married her son. It was wrong not to let her know.
The Internet (UA-cam )is wonderful because it gives you a chance to talk about some horrible things that happened in your life and it also gives you the good and loving people that as abused people we didn't know excisted. God is good Bless all the people on this page that send their love and caring to us that have our pain, I can't speak for all of us, I am in my 70's so I will speak for myself. Bless you.
Thank you David for the heart, I am humbled my story is also being starved but I was a child at the time. If you know the story of the man that had electrical tape on his shoes ,that's how I went to school and was laughed at (King Edward Public School 1962 ) Sincerely Valerie.
She gets raped by a grown man yet she’s the one to blame.Damn shame and if she didn’t know it was her long lost sold son it was not something she did wrong purposely very sad story.She went from being abused as a child to be abused being elderly👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽
Heartbreaking..
Yes I guess it’s easier to blame the victim !! That happens more times than we know .
The men always get away with abusing girls and woman!!!! Why woman who know what men do protect them always disgusts me beyond belief!!!! Having lived it myself I will never comprehend it and can only pray the men who abuse the innocent girls and woman and woman and men who then protect those pos all rot in hell forever without a moments relief!!!!!
You got that right how about that Vickie
Abused all her life. Heartbreaking
" I was born 103 years ago, you can figure it out." Love it!
LOL! Yeah, that was great. Reminds me of my own grandmother. :-)
Lol and that was her opening statement
She was born 1916
Chituga Khalifa can’t be because these interviews are from the 70s
Chituga Khalifa wring she was born probably in 1875 or 1876 or sometime around then
I remember hearing a similar story on the Sally Jessie Raphael show back in the 80's. A married couple found out they were actually brother and sister. They had both been adopted as babies, but neither of them knew anything about their biological parents. They only found out because the husband had some serious medical condition, and he started researching his background. I wish I could remember how they dealt with it.
My late uncle was a Catholic priest back in 1950s/1960s. He left the priesthood in the early 1970s, partially because he was disillusioned. He told me a story about his time in Peru with Maryknoll Seminary. Of the sumptuous feasts they would eat daily. One night he saw starving neighborhood children at the gates of the seminary begging for food. He went and got all the leftovers to give to them. He was admonished by his superiors for doing so. they told him that once they started that, they'd never get rid of them, and they'd have beggars at the gates every night. I remember how disgusted he was when he told us that story.
That is a shocking and sad story.
David Hoffman filmmaker
Hi
Did you Uncle leave that religious organization to pursue a truthful walk with God or he left to go agnostic ?
@@daughterofenoch677 As far as I remember he remained a deeply religious man
@@shiwooify
Thank you for responding. I did wonder. Cos I seen a number of clergymen go agnostic after a bad experience.
My recommendations in 2020 just keep getting wilder and wilder 😂
Update: 2021 is just as wild as 2020.
Right
Right?!
Yup!😂
No foreall like what is this
For Reals.....
how could they call it a sin or a transgression when neither she nor the son even knew that they were related- holy smokes, you can't judge people for something they don't know about.....
God doesn't.
People can be so judgmental over something that was none of their business
The religious fanatics considered sex and a child out of wedlock her sin what a tragic life for that poor girl
Jason Barnes It was not her sin!
Texas 1 I understand that I am just saying the people of that day saw that as her sin she was an abused abandoned child
This is one of most heartbreaking stories I have ever heard. Not one single thing that happened was Emmaline's fault and she was ostracized for it all. I'd like to say how different people are now and how something like this could never happen in our time. But sadly. It's still happening in the world today.
I feel sorry for this lady. She didn’t know he was her son. I hope she was able to find some peace in he life.
"He without sin cast the first stone"
I wonder how your family got their last name.. lol.
Amen.so be it.
@@karencarney7595 The name is German. It's occupational in origin and means to measure land. Likely the ancestor was a land surveyor. Probably not what you originally assumed it to mean in English.
Wait a minute. You would be going crazy if a daughter married her own father. God never wants to us to marry or have sex our own parents.
Ok! I was never forced into marrying my father and then shunned. Here are a bunch of stones and I’m about to cast them
It's a shame Emeline was ostracized. It's not like she knew the young man was the son she gave up for adoption. Shame on the adopted parents for not being upfront with the son when he became of age! Let this be a lesson to adoptive parents. Tell the truth before the child you adopted ends up in a sexual relationship with a possible close relative.
Right... why do some feel like bcuz they raise someone’s child the child somehow is really theirs
Honey, she didn't give that baby up for adoption. She was raped, then had her baby stolen from her and sold for profit...all too common a practice back then. That's why the family who bought the baby didn't tell him about his real mother. This is an example of horrific human trafficking that has existed for thousands of years and continues today. Truly a tragedy.
@@lmd2454 In the USA the 1865 13th Amendment to the US Constitution formally abolished slavery, the trade in human beings as chattel, property. So by such Amendment, any "sale" of a human being is a federal offense, violates the US Constitution, and is void from the start and unenforceable.
As an adult adoptee, I can tell you that it isn't that easy. Our birth records are sealed and we (and our adopted parents) are not allowed to see them. In my particular state, you usually go thru an adoption attorney if you can afford it-they're pricey. A representative of the lawyer will look up those people named on our original and sealed birth certificates. Then the rep does the research re birth parents-are they alive, is birth father known, etc. If a parent is alive, the rep explains the situation. Only IF the birth parent gives consent for info to be given or a meeting arranged can we go further. If a birth parent refuses to give out health info and downright refuses to see the now-adult child they gave up, that's the end of the search. Now if both birth parents are dead, we automatically get our original birth certificates, which at least have our REAL mothers' names on them. My male birth parent was listed as unknown & birth mother died so I automatically got the info I wanted so badly.
Most adoptive parents DO tell a child that he or she is adopted but without names of birth family, no "truth" can be told about the adopted child's blood parents. They still remain anonymous.
@@msleemastyles7452 if they raised the kid it is theirs.
It breaks my heart and boils my blood that this happened, and that we still haven't learned from the past. Women have always become the scapegoats for what others inflict on them. It has always been the woman who gets ostracized or punished for crimes committed against them.
In 1999 i knew a lady who was...no lie...108. She told us she remembered when the Titanic sank. Her name was Beulah Smith and she had been a teacher in TN. Her son was about 75 a doctor and still practicing at the time.
I'm from there and remember the story well. I also remember many of the people interviewed. Nettie Mitchell used to come to our classroom at school and tell us stories of the past.
Lucky you were to have seen Nettie Mitchell tell her stories. She was a wonderful person and a great storyteller. I felt very lucky to be in her presence and to record her stories.
David Hoffman-filmmaker
I moved to Fayette 4 years ago. It's a beautiful little town and the people I've met have been, in general, pretty nice. My husband-to-be is from Fayette and part of his family use to own the general store. His mother moved down from Kent's Hill to Fayette where she has lived her entire life.
The narrator called it a moral indiscretion but it could only be that if Emmaline had been aware that the young man was her son. She did not make an immoral decision because she had no idea he was her son
@@reginasherman8822 Hu? It is still, by nature, a really bad idea. A piece of paper changes nothing.
And when it was discovered, they parted forever. What a challenging life this poor woman lived.
Cece DuBois U R so correct . I also ‘think’ that the natural and good love between a mother and son was there . It was mistakenly
felt as a couples love / romance . They knew no better . Since the son left immediately proves this point .
the sin was having sex with her boss not accidentally marring her own son .
Regina Galloway
Your statement ???
Man, that last scene, hearing the person speaking about their grave at it, dubbed over their actual grave after they passed... that was really powerful and caught me off guard completely. Like watching them slip away before your eyes. Passed on into the ether of history.
God I love the look of 16mm. All our modern high definition is stunning and true to the details of subject in frame. However that special something, the almost dreamlike character of film, is just beyond replication. The way the colors "feel" is like paint on canvas. It is evocative and stirring and totally imperfect and just everything this medium strives to achieve.
Sorry i know this isn't relevant to the content but I just wondered if anyone else feels the same way?
“Mrs Murphy when were you born?
“I was born 103 years ago you figure it out 👵🏻😂 #precious 💕
She has quite an accent too
Yes! lol She was so over math.
I can’t wait to be old and honest.
No time to waste on math at this point.
The title of this video really cheapens it. I almost didn't watch it. I am glad I did.
Agree, perpetuating the cruelty againt Em as a taboo freakshow
I live in Maine and I'm glad I got to see this video. It's nice to learn about how life was those many years ago.
Thank you for sharing this story.
Thank you Laurie for your comment. If your resources allow, I would sure appreciate your using the THANKS button under any of my videos including the one you have commented on. It is something new that UA-cam is beta testing and would mean a great deal for my continuing efforts.
David Hoffman filmmaker
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker I just went back to your video and couldn't find a thank you to click on.
I would have if it was available.
I always disliked how the word “sin” is used when this story is covered. That poor woman, who was treated terribly for most of her life, didn’t sin. And neither did her son. It’s just something pretty danged tragic that happened, innocently.
He sinned when he left her instead of facing the supposed sin with her as her son. He left and had no consequences
At first I was gonna leave a smartass comment due to the title alone. Then the more I kept viewing, the more heartbroken I got 😢
Alexandria, I am glad you didnt You are too beautiful to be so ugly inside. Thank you for being true and honest.
I use to do such just by the titles, but now I realize I have to watch the entire video before passing judgment
SLAVERY!!!!
This story really touched my heart, the sadness I feel for a woman long gone is overwhelming and I know I will recall this story for the rest of my life. Sleep softly sweet Emmaline.
Yes me to
If they married without knowing, there was no sin. In South Carolina, orphans from Charleston were sent to Greenville and vice versa to avoid accidental sibling marriage. Read Moll Flanders.
Listening to some of the people talk in this documentary, where they're explaining that Emmeline "should have known better because young girls from Maine were taught from a young age about sex. It just happened", is absolutely ignorant. She was a child.
poor Emiline i hope you found a thousand loving friends in the aferlife
This Lady i think has many friends alive today after hearing the way she was treated by her community. RIP.
I hope there is an afterlife . . .
There is no afterlife. But don't worry because death is absolute. Her pain ended when she died.
That poor lady 😢
@@robdrich8556 oh... you are in for a major surprise :) you are NOT your body Mr.
The fact that they call it the “sins of our mothers” is what baffles me.
Always finding a way to bash the women.
🙄
When the father was actually the sinner. She did the right thing by breaking up with him after finding out the guy was her son.
You clearly don't understand the concept of irony.
@@niche9015 There are many ways they could have advertised this excluding irony. I get the concept. The point i'm making is it does not help the documentary in anyway. Please don't be a smart ass.
@stupidcomment Thanks for the clarity. In this day in age, the title just doesn't sit right with me. There were many titles it could have been called in order to make ppl think. But once again thank you and thank you for speaking respectfully. Because others seem to live off negative energy in these comments.
The narrator says she married her son at 62, but the lady in the beginning at 10:25 says she married him in her early 30s, and that he was a very 'young man'. If she had him at 14, that would have made him about 16, which would make more sense in the timeline, in regards to his relatives coming to visit, and him going back with his adopted parents.
I can't help but notice that a lot of people who would have been ostracized in yesteryear don't realize how far we've come and how far we have yet to go. During the 90s and early 2000s, we still had a huge issue with blaming the victim. I know I'm not alone when I say it left lasting damage on me.
I noticed that there are a lot more people who get forgiven and accepted regardless of what they do. Though some things are unforgivable, the truth is that this level of acceptance is a huge deal. Now, if only we can see a genuine change in others who are still stuck in the past...
I was raped at 14 by the boy next door (I thought he liked me ) became pregnant and my mother wanted to sell my son but he was given to the children's aid 1964 . 30 years later I found my son but the sins of his father fell on him because he wanted to have sex with me, I no longer have contact with him. Sins of the father.
I am in my 70's now. Without God in my life I would have ended my life. Bless.
😥 I'm so sorry
Thank you for your kind words Bless you.
sorry to hear that. God bless you.
Thank you Anna so much for reading my comment, knowing people care warms my heart. Bless.
Sarah, thank you for your kind words, it's has not been an easy life for me. If I didn't have my dog to keep my company and give me love I would be lost in my pain. Bless.
Talk about being dealt a bad hand. People are heartless and cruel. Robbed of her innocence and youth.
Yeah right vh
Me too. From age 4 .
The only sinners in this story were the so-called "Christians".
❤ I'm sorry Emmeline 😢 RIP
Ah, yes. Back when PBS was entirely synonymous with quality television. Poor Ms. Emmeline...😥
How can it be considered shameful when neither person knew that they were related?
Their ‘love’ for each other was a new emotion to them and neither could have known that it was maternal-filial love.
I think maybe their souls recognized each other but they misunderstood the relationship connection.
I have to go back & re-listen as I'm not quite certain how anyone knew absolutely that they were kin.
@@Silvermoonscorpion No need to revert to primitive explanations about souls. Science has answered this one. It's called Genetic Sexual Attraction. 1st degree relatives usually live together which cancels out the attraction. This is the Westermack Effect. When they don't even know they're related, they'll experience this attraction and mistake it for true love.
@@jakestroll6518 maybe. No one truly knows anything. Not really. It was just a shame the way she was treated, period. Wasn't even her fault.
Cynic. I know about the effect as well, but I at least partially disagree.
I do believe they loved one another.
That was pretty much the saddest story I've ever heard. To be entirely innocent and yet be the victim of gossip and intolerance. I don't think much of the human race.
This is still going on to this day.
I have here also neighbours here who laugh about me.
Who talk sh.it about me.
Who get other's to believe them and that they are victims.
Without me doing anything but sitting in my own garden.
Bullies still exist.
These days with the convenience of facebook gossip travels faster then ever.
That's why i hate people now.
Cup Cake
There is a commandment for you also, forgive those whose persecute you and love your enemies.
I know exactly what you saying.
Watching this makes me wonder how many other girls like Emeline were out there? She couldn't have been the only one ravished by this lecher.... Being an adult this is ALL on him--she was still a child....
RIP David McCullough...one of our nation's greatest historians
It should be Sins of our Mothers & Fathers.... Stop blaming negative on Moms alone.
oh i guess i missed the part where the dad fucked his daughter.
You know the title is being facetious, don't you? It's named the way it is because of how people acted towards her (it's also a play on the old "sin's of the father") phrase. Stop being so defensive, no one is attacking you love.
BUT.... BUT ... What sin did the mother here commit? None. She had no idea who this individual was. Before DNA testing, and even after, no doubt many such situations have taken place... where people are totally INNOCENT .
To be a 'sin' or wrong doing, FIRST one must have knowledge and intention of wrong doing. Those criteria did NOT exist here.
If there were ANY 'SIN' here it was those hurtful people who turned against this poor woman, who acted as any normal, decent person would have... and of course the pedophile who raped her. She was clearly an innocent victim here.
Shame on anyone who would hold her responsible for things clearly out of her control.
@@faithrada I agree..
I'm not judging her, nor defending her, but she had to of known her 'babys' gender, dob, name, and who the parents/neighbors were, where he was from etc.. something atleast!
Yet married him knowing the last name, dob, where he was from before they married..
Granted She was a 14yo child when she gave birth, (which will make any sane person snap Internally) and knew the heartbreak of never seeing her baby again. .
So upon meeting him, she knew it was fate they met again, and made sure she didn't lose her 'baby' again in order to love/take care of him.. I also wonder if needing the help during desperate times also played maybe a subconscious factor in the (then uneducated) choice she made as well..
I don't think her choice had any sinister intentions, but out desperation to not lose her child again.. but she had to had known, or atleast suspected it enough to make the connection, as humans instinctively do. . details of an personal injustice, that traumatizing are not easily forgotten.. at all. No mother can forget their child or any detail of their child's existence.
@@robdrich8556 😂
valid point.. as this story isn't about Fathers.
The whole town sin . "Love your neighbor as yourself" They did not do this one commandment the only one Christ spoke of. They will have to answer for this.
Amen to that!
Also this is a JOKE but
“Love thy neighbor as yourself”
i don’t love myself
AGAIN THIS IS A JOKE
Isis Montgomery It wasn’t but he wrapped all the others up in this one commandment. It makes sense.
@Isis Montgomery in the new testament it's say basically if you can't keep all keep these main two. Put no other God before Him and love thy neighbor as thyself. Problem with that is ppl don't even love themselves how they are going to love others. Understand now why the world is so messed up
Judge not...
Love your neighbor wher was that love when native ameticans were under invasion?....fake tear
Bullying takes all sorts of forms. Collective Bullying is a whole different kind of animal!
These stories, no matter how difficult, should be told. We learn from heartache, struggle, shame. It teaches us to reach for light and love and understanding.
😭 The sickest, saddest, & most frightening part of Emmeline's life story (true or false - fact or fiction) is that her's is not the last nor the only one of her kind to be told.... Out there... somewhere, in the ugliest, darkest depths of this earth we walk around in,,, are more "Emmelines",,, children,,, being ostracized, banished, traded, starved, abused, beaten, raped, and abandoned by whole families or towns... *TODAY*
Wake up people... children are precious. And we all know in the 1800's it was a different, far more struggling time than *today*....
They had an excuse... no proper education on treatment of children/adult alike....
So what is society's excuse today??? R.I.P. and carry on.... all of you beautiful Emmelines🥀🥀🥀
Now we have severe narcissists preying on women.
Children are our most precious resource.
@@boundariessetinstone5893 do you not believe they were narcissistic in days of old?
I agreed with you till the excuse part. Neighter they did nor do we have an excuse.
Poor Emmeline. She is utterly blameless. My heart goes out to her. What chance did she have; a child of 13, working in a mill, when the older owners son took advantage of her? She had no-one she could turn to. And then to marry her own son in ignorance of who he was. It is a shame she didnt have the means to leave that town and start afresh, but money aside, I can see that after previous experience of life in a city and working in a factory ( little better than slave labour in those days) she would probably have felt safer staying put n surroundings she knew. Shame on those townspeople; I am so glad there were one or two who had compassion. May she rest in peace.
I wonder what happened to her son / husband?
@@barbaramathis5844 and her other son from her first marriage. How can you just leave behind the woman who gave birth to you? People remark on kids today. There were horrible people through out history.
Emmerline
@@barbaramathis5844
Can't you just say son?
Jesus! You're like one of those towns people.
The hell did I get here 🤔..I was watching videos about Greek life and I ended up here in the twilight zone 🤔
My father made a deal with a guy to marry me for $50 a month - he was scared that he would have a bastard grandchild and also, he did not have one more mouth to feed by shuffling me under another man's roof - I did not have any children because I did not want to be a party to that scheme - that was in 1959 -
I read the book "Emiline" years ago. I didn't know it was based on a true story. It makes you wonder what all manner of awful things could happen to beautiful spirited women & girls back then.
It hasn't stopped.
They still happen today
The pedo agenda is in full force. They have infiltrated and infected every part of our society.
@@FastNCurious88 It's sadly true. You can read it in this comment section even, smh. A comment above had an individual praising the rapist and bragging about his own children. I can't go any further.
@@FastNCurious88 🙄 pedo agenda? You mean stuff thats happened since mans walked this earth
What a terrible tragedy. To have everyone shun her especially her parents when she needed someone so badly it was awful. How was she supposed to know he was her son, its tragic
My paternal grandfather and my maternal grandfather were both farmed out at about 8 yrs old along with their older brothers. They were not allowed to talk,have opinions,always ate last and most of time went to bed hungry. They had a very hard life, abused,over worked no affection. We truly are blessed to have the lives we do now.
Poor things…
I don’t care whether they were my hired hands…if boys came to me, especially so young, I’d be almost a mother to them.
They’d eat well, I’d educate them, and they’d have time set aside to play and be kids!
We're the " men" who did this to these young women, who impregnated this young women, shunned?! No, I don't think so!!!!!!
She was a child of God " she did not know "she is now with the lord . rest in peace emiline.
Epstein was also a child a god. So is Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein.
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because of "closed" adoptions where no info is available to the adopted person, I should think that this happens more than we think
Right. I understand the safety precautions, but there’s got to be a better way. I think we all feel a strong bond with our birth moms. Like I’ve only been around mine a handful of times, but even if I didn’t know she was my mom I think I would still know there’s some connection there. Idk if she can feel it, but I feel a bond. That makes me think in this situation, and probably many others like it, that natural bond is returning but since they don’t know there’s a familiar connection they mistake it for something else. There’s even accounts of people meeting children (as adults) they gave up and end up having sexual relationships with them. I really think that has something to do with it, of all the women around he was drawn to her and her to him. There’s just something to be said about that and everyone who’s been adopted deserves to know at least enough to protect themselves.
Accidental incest might happen more often than we think but NOT THIS. This is a whole different story. Show some respect.
I love how people not too long ago blamed other people for the bad things that happened to them, like they had any choice in the matter I've seen it happen in my own family and it is disgusting.
Emmeline did the BEST with what she was given. If she had been given better options she would have been able to make better decisions. She was born into a society where there was no advocacy for the poor. The poor would be bid off at "Pauper Auctions" instead Emmeline was sent off to the cloth mills to Lowell. The man there seduced her, she had a baby, the baby was taken from her and placed into another family, she meets and marrieds him, later discovers he is her son, divorces him and is STILL ostracized by her town and church. NOT HER FAULT. Poor thing. I cannot imagine the rejection she felt!
My grandmother at 14 was given to a man 26 to marry because her mother was dying. On her wedding night she was so scared, she ran home and climbed into bed with her mother. This was in 1912. There was no social security, no government assistance of any kind. Life was tough when you were poor. Her father had died the year before that. Her mother, my great grandmother, thought she was trying to save her. Never thinking that she was giving her to a possible pedophile. Times were so rough back then. If it happened today, he would be considered a pedophile. Hard to believe things have changed that much.
Thank you for sharing your story
Not true. It still happens.
Angela Hatfield What isn’t true? If you are referring to the fact that pedophiles still exist, yes I’m aware. There are not as many women today giving there daughters to older men of that I can say for certain, it might happen but not as much as it did back then.
@@Figgatella I was saying that it still happens today as it did all those years ago. I could tell stories that make you uncomfortable.
@@Figgatella I have a story about myself but I can’t put it in words I was 14
This is sad. Why did people vilify her? It's not her fault she married her son if she was forced to give him away as an infant. She would not hv known him. This is sad
Every couple of years I end up coming back to watch your videos again and this one has always stuck out for me in my head. BTW, when Nettie Mitchell says that there was no telephone or RFD's back in those days, I didn't know what that meant and was unfamiliar with that acronym. I guess that it stands for "Rural Free Delivery (RFD)" So I just spent an hour researching the history of Rural Free Delivery 🤣
It's NOT Emmeline's fault. It's "not" her sons fault. It's neither of their faults. Emmeline didn't know, her son had no idea. The fault lies on Emmeline's parent's, and the sons foster parent's.