Thank you for your thoughts.

Having never met these people its all a bit emotionally distant. I do feel for their apparent horrendous suffering.

My brother was clearly left an emotionally basket case.
It's interesting to note how actions some 60 years ago are still reverberating .
His son is embittered he feels his dad abandoned him and as such doesn't want to acknowledge a paternal 'family'.

He didn't even know that he was named after his grandfather.

On behalf of mum, runner's pejorative comments of 'bad choices' betrays the lack of understanding/ compassion and the selfishness of his 'Christianity'.

Clearly, she did what was necessary to look after her children...or perhaps should have let her children die or suffer?

My sister had an operation to correct 'rickets' ( nourishment issues) in Germany...was this or the survival of her children...possibly. I can only admire her material determinism. i.e. I wonder if given the same circumstances would runner (any man) have done the same for their children?

From what I was told there were sexual predators in the Aussie camp with propositions/threats.....bad decision ? I'm not that convinced? given the past and that she was a 4th grade educated peasant woman what real choices did she have?

The abortion.... given she lived/worked a long way over 300 ks from where the abortion took place and later died lack of language and location. All her friends were in the same boat. How did she arrange/get to, pay for the abortion and morality at the time (all rigidly Christian? ) and was she forced into it by the father (maybe mine too)? Odds on I'd say.

I think it is fair to suggest that given the circumstances declaring her guilty of 'bad choices' is morally unsustainable and un - Christian.
You pick the bible text. "judge not lest Ye be judged" comes to mind.
My overall point was to show that such moral judgments say more about the accuser' short comings than the accused.

Examinator your write

'You pick the bible text. "judge not lest Ye be judged" comes to mind. '

and yet a couple of key strokes before that you write

'On behalf of mum, runner's pejorative comments of 'bad choices' betrays the lack of understanding/ compassion and the selfishness of his 'Christianity'.

it seems very much to me you started the post so that you could judge.