Adah herself must have caused much confusion by, for example, claiming that she originally came from an old Southern family or, on another occasion, by claiming that she was born of a French mother in Arkansas (in 5.
Adah gave birth to a boy, but he died at birth which contributed to Adah's sorrow after all the misfortune in her private life - two broken marriages, the scandal that arose and now her baby's death (in 5.
Adah Maurer's magazine and the organization she founded, End Violence Against the Next Generation, provided the basis for the first and, as it turned out, the most enduring child advocacy network in the English-speaking world.
Adah Maurer's view: that there is never a good reason for deliberately hurting a child, that nothing good comes from it, only harm, is taking root in the mainstream.
I am saddened that she is not here with us today to enjoy its progress toward inevitable vindication and triumph, toward a time when those instruments of child torture--the paddle, the strap, the cane, the tawse--will be seen as pathetic artifacts of a bygone, benighted age.
Feeds |
Contact