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Anonymous:

       Hello Suzanne, I too was in the Rebekah Home between 1999 and 2001. I remeber you you didnt stay very long it was rumored that you were pregnant and that's why you left. I and other girls remember saying to ourselves that we wished we were pregnant so that we could be sent home as well. I dont wish that now 7 years later I am thankful I was sent to the Home despite all the alegations. The alegations I myself never witnessed and was their from the beginning till my departure 2 years later. I am married with 2 children and work part time and go to college full time and am active in church.  I stayed longer because they said I was not ready to go home after my one year program. And I wasn't. I hope you and your family are doing well and that you like many other Rebekah Girls past and present dont dictate how you live your life based on what many might think was an unfortunate and negative expierance. It's a choice wether or not one will live a good or bad life. Its aboslutely more fullfilling with the Lord in your life. I realized in the Rebekah Home that I had a choice and that is the difference that helped me change. I have come across many former Rebekah girls who say the Home forced Bible Principles upon them and they had no choice but to comply. I beg to differ because no matter how influential they were or tried to be in the end the young girls would be out and on their own again and the same choice is still presented to them. The choice to live the same life style as before the Rebekah Home or live a new and renewed life with the Lord or not its still choice.

Anonymous:
My birthmother was in the rebekah home for girls.
I was born 05/4/1970.
I think her name was Betty Diane Fitch.
Did anyone know her??????

snowcone:

--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---I was there 69-71. And I thought it was bad then! I dont understand how the heck all the mind control and coercement was allowed to continue. It just makes me mad to hear kids who have no choice being subjected to that STILL. I am SO sad to hear about women who cannot locate thier children. It is not fair Roloff was given so much power over others.



I'm still angry with Roloff (knew him well) for his need to control others completely. Once, when the quartet was on the Phil Donahue show live in Chicago, a caller called us 'Roloff Robots'. Of course then I defended him, but think it's funny (and true) as hell now.



Roloff used me as an example of girls who had no family to foot the bill, yet out of 'love' he took me in anyway. Love, hell! He made TONS of money off the girls he took with him, and I know I brought in my share. I'm one of the truly lucky ones, who got to travel and all...and I'm still hurt and angry so I can only imagine how most of survivors of that place feel. There were literally dozens of families who wanted to take me in, but when I turned 18 Lester refused to give me any contact information at all, so I left to make life on my own. Can you imagine walking out of 3 years of Rebekah to the real world and being expected to survive??! It was crazy. And when I called them to get advise and stuff they told me not to 'bother' them any more. I was left to find a job, apartment, open a bank account, and learn to fit into society with NO guidance. Needless to say I made my share of naive mistakes and wonder how I stayed off the streets and out of jail.



That was NOT love. God does not leave and forsake us. (Not to mention they all knew my family had done exactly the same thing). There was a hell of a lot of emotional cruelty there. Roloff on the other hand had his own agenda as well as the people who worked for him. It took 35 years and a whole lot of pain, mistakes and self-loathing to figure out how to stand up for myself and develop some solid self-esteem.



There are some good things that came out of the homes, but they fell far short of the picture they want to portray. Teaching closed-minded intolerance is just WRONG!



So that is my 2cents
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Chai:
My friends just brought their daughter home from New Beginnings for her 10-day visit after being there for a year. She will be 18 in August and doesn't want to go back and she won't be going back. For those of you interested, if/when I hear reports of how the school has operated over this last year, I will post so that those of you who have friends there will have an idea of how it is currently. You can also check out newbeginningsgirlsacademy.com if you want to see pictures. They are opening another facility in Missouri.
Chai

lorrispickelmire:
The Rebekah home was used as a quasi maternity home in the 60's and 70's, so was Bethesda.  I was in the home 85-86, and they were no longer excepting pregnant girls.  They now have several maternity homes as well as regular girls homes.

Lorri

They have a maternity home in Tennessee.

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