Not really. I had pretty much the same situation, going to live with my grandparents when I was 12. From Ann Dunham's perspective, I can imagine that she thought that sending young Barry back to live with her parents where he could attend American schools, while she stayed in Indonesia with her husband, job, and young daughter to be the best option all around.
And just to correct the details, Obama returned to the US in 1971. A year later, his mother divorced Lolo and returned to Hawaii with Maya. After grad school in Hawaii, she returned to Indonesia in 1975. According to one story, Barry was offered the choice of remaining in Hawaii and attending high school there, or going to Indonesia. He chose to stay. Maya, who would have been 5 years old, went back to Indonesia, but returned to Hawaii to attend high school.
From Ann Dunham's perspective, I can imagine that she thought that sending young Barry back to live with her parents where he could attend American schools, while she stayed in Indonesia with her husband, job, and young daughter to be the best option all around.
Obama’s mama was a self-centered & self-serving bitch — YES, that's the most delicate way to put it. An Abortion would have caused her a lot less “hassle”, because it's quite obvious to anyone who's done the research on Ann and her relationship with Obama Jr that Ann had little if ANY Maternal Attachment to her first-born child. Here's the dedication from her dissertation: Of course Obama Jr "seldom complained"; Ann was rarely around to hear any complaints back in Hawaii, as she was almost ALWAYS "in the field" in Indonesia & other countries to which she traveled. Ann separated from Lolo in 1974. Nobody forced her.
It was NOT his mama Ann. It was Obama's grandfather ... and
Yep, the same people who were there at his high school graduation in Hawaii ...
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