Wifely Duties and Baseball Bats: Morgan Dawn’s Story

“At the age of 3, I was adopted by a Navy couple. Life was great for about 6 weeks, when they adopted a baby boy. That was when the horror began. I was pushed aside, because I was ‘just a girl.’ By the time I was 10, the couple had 3 biological kids, on top of myself and the other adopted boy.”

An Average Homeschooler: Part Three, Middle School

“Middle school is where we first ran into problems with my education. Up until that point I remember being a pretty easy kid to homeschool. But when we hit middle school, all I can remember is either being incredibly bored or hating school.”

An Average Homeschooler: Part Two, The Beginning

“When I got home from school that day and tried to explain to my mother what I’d ‘learned,’ her reaction was, of course, rather horrified. We’d practically held a séance in class. I didn’t go back to school, and that was when my mother officially began homeschooling me.”

This Road I’ve Traveled

“I could never do this. I could never put the fake smile on and pretend that I hadn’t watched my dad throw the breakfast dishes in the sink that morning because someone dared to speak back to him. I couldn’t stand by and watch my siblings suffer while no one knew what happened behind the doors of my family’s home.”