From
Tineke Ferwerda’s “Sister Philothea: Relationships between Women and Roman
Catholic Priests” (1989; translated 1993) (p. 165; paragraph breaks added for
clarity):
I must
now think back to the 1950s, when I was working in a home for unmarried
mothers. I did the administration as an
assistant to the social worker. One of
my jobs was to put all the facts on file.
Even at that time, when no one dared to think about it, let alone talk
about it, girls were being admitted who had been made pregnant by a priest.
At this
time the tendency was also to make unmarried mothers give up the child they
expected. These women were put under
pressure and received no guidance.
I often
involuntarily think back to this, all the more since ten years later I saw some
of these women back as patients in the psychiatric institution where I was
working as a counsellor [sic]...
. . .
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