The woman who swapped home for a hut near Chechnya (BBC)
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The whole premise is so questionable, I wonder if the underlying story is a crime being covered up.
Part of being a parent is sacrificing everything in order to raise your children regardless how old they are.
It's a tough life she choose so in a way that's probably best for the children but still not fair to them.
If you're not used to that then I can imagine that it is hard for you to see how this could even exist but it's unfortunately true in a large chunk of the world and apparently it extends to behind closed doors in modern day Germany as well.
> Few tourists visit the gorge, a notoriously insular region with a reputation for drug and arms smuggling, and radical Islam - one of the top leaders of Islamic State (IS), Abu Omar al-Shishani, hails from here.
Once you realize that, the rest of the article makes sense.
I am trying to remember that we only have the parts of the story a) the mother and b) the Beeb want us to actually read.
Their kids ending up in foster care may be better for the kids than being raised in a DSM certifiable parenting environment. At least in foster care the expectations of care are darn low, so less chance of being left with a sense of betrayal into adulthood.
I think Georgia is a place I'd happily visit; it looks like an interesting crossroads between east and west, with a lot of pretty country. I wonder how safe it is, though.
Be prepared to see a lot of poverty, though. Especially if you’ve never been to a formerly soviet country.
I’m from Poland and I have visited Georgia in 2011.
Maybe we could even organize some mini HN meetup, here in Tbilisi...
"Two of her children, aged nine and 12, who initially remained with her husband, are now in foster care. With a different partner, she also had and older child, a daughter who lives with her father."
n.b. housewife in Germany != German housewife;