i havne't seen it. I know too many parents that have beaten thier children and never stopped. I think its admirable that she wants help. If she really does. IF she is a "Gypsy " in the Irish Traveler sense of the word, as some of you seem to think, they really truly devalue girls in thier society. I only live about 45 min. from Murphy Village in South Carolina. And I hate to say it but that sort of thing may be extreme but it is by no means unusual. Girls wear adult type makeup at about age 7. They also marry girls off at the youngest age allowable by law in whatever state they are in. In South Carolina for years they were giving parental consent to marry off girls at 13. Another part of thier initiation into adulthood is stealing something, typically in the realm of shoplifting. This is not a depiction by any means of all Irish Travelers. I am sure there are many from those blood lines that are truly good people. This is an overview of what I know from watching that particular subculture.
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Date: 2002-09-23 08:53 pm (UTC)