Adopted

How can a mother let go of one child with no remorse, seemingly no regret? How can she let the courts take not one but two of her children away from her, one several years after the other?

In the name of forsaking all but god, the god of her cult, that is what my mother did. Rather than change her lifestyle and find a permanent home, she let the courts take me. It's hard for me to understand the brainwashing that it takes to make a mother turn off that part of her brain and in her heart that screams of longing for her child. The part that would make her walk through fire to keep them from harm. There is a chemical connection that bonds a mother to her child as it grows within her womb. How is the influence of a cult so strong that it could sever that bond?