An interesting contrast between two adoptees feelings towards their adoptive mothers:
The late Steve Jobs - Co-founder of Apple"He stated in his authorized biography that they "were my parents 1,000%."[40] Walter Isaacson wrote in his authorized biography about Steve Jobs that Steve had told him, "Paul and Clara are 100% my parents. And Joanna and Abdulfatah—are only a sperm and an egg bank. It's not rude, it is the truth."[45]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#Early_lifeThe late Sheila CaffellDr F's wit statshttp://jeremybamberforum.co.uk/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=1199.0;attach=6191http://jeremybamberforum.co.uk/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=1199.0;attach=6193"She said she felt as if she was caught up in a "coven of evil". These feelings appeared to be involved with her relationship with her adoptive mother and her standards of good and evil".
"She did see that Mrs Bamber was a threat to her, and did not want to visit the BAMBERS at their farm in Essex. Sheila felt that Mrs Bamber had been over-protective towards her and found it difficult to express warm feelings towards her".
"In hindsight I believe that Sheila would have relapsed into a state of psychosis, probably having a firmly held belief or delusion involving concepts of good and evil, and certainly paranoid, possibly involving her mother."
"Both June and Sheila suffered dillusional states of religion and Sheila's illness was influenced by her mother although I do not think the illnesses were caused by the same problem."
http://jeremybamberforum.co.uk/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=1201.0;attach=6197"I also treated Sheila's adopted mother, Mrs June BAMBER at St Andrew's Hospital, Northants. I can say that June after suffering a long period of childlessness was examined and eventually an ovarian cyst was removed. She made a decision to adopt and having done this suffered severe depressions. This was around 1959. She required ECT as an in-patient and made a full recover.
Farhad Emani (Freddie) wit stats:http://jeremybamberforum.co.uk/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=159.0;attach=214"She also had a deep dislike of her stepmother who apparently kept quoting religion at her. This would upset Sheila and annoy her".
"She would not discuss all her problems, although whenever she visited her father, she would return even more depressed because of her stepmother. Apparently the stepmother would preach to her about her boyfriends and how it was wrong that she should make love with them and Sheila should remember GOD. She gradually detoriated until about three weeks before her first breakdown, Nicholas fell out of a taxi when she was returning from her parents. She blamed herself for this because she was not concentrating on what the children were doing only on Mother's religious rantings".
http://jeremybamberforum.co.uk/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=159.0;attach=216"Whilst I was there she telephoned Tara, a close friend. She was apologising to Tara for a Religious book that her step mother had dropped off at Tara's house a couple of days previously".
"She kept talking about the Devil and God, and stated that God was sitting opposite her and unlike what her stepmother said he in fact loved her".
http://jeremybamberforum.co.uk/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=159.0;attach=218"Had it just been her Stepmother who had been killed I could accept it as she disliked her intensely but to think she has killed her father and children is difficult to comprehend".
CC's Letter Intended For NBhttp://jeremybamberforum.co.uk/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=1482.0;attach=7232"I will not allow her to f..k up the minds of my children in the way I suspect she has your daughters. I am sorry to be so blunt but that is restrained compared to how I really feel".
Excerpt From Claire Powell's bookSheila made it clear to her friends that her precarious state of her personal equilibrium stemmed largely from her peculiar relationship with June. She was morbidly sensitive to any hint of disapproval from her mother. It was a theme she reverted to constantly. 'She talked about her mother and her background' said Sonja. 'She told me that she and her mother didn't get on. Sheila told me many times that she could not talk to her mother at all, that there was no form of communication between them. She said her mother was never happy with her or with what she did.
