Author
Marion
To vaccinate was to allow a belief of possible harm to enter thought
Marion explains why the family, as Christian Scientists, did not vaccinate their older son, who caught diphtheria, and the reasoning that made sense at the time.
Conditions under which a family could possibly bring up happy and healthy children while indoctrinating them with the tenets of Christian Science
A former Christian Scientist lists the conditions under which children might grow up happy and healthy in a Christian Science home, and why her own family turned to doctors.
"Oh, don't worry about it. Everybody does it."
A former Christian Scientist describes finding signs of breast cancer at 42, choosing a mastectomy, and a church member’s whispered reply: “Everybody does it.”