Betty Mahmoody Biography

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Betty Mahmoody once said, “I wanted to share my hard-learned lesson: that you can’t pack up your rights in a suitcase and take them wherever you go.” in her second book For the Love of a Child (Barnes 393). Realizing that women and children often endure the same struggles she went through, she decided to start the One World: For Children foundation to help people in her past situation (Barnes 394).Betty knows the hardship of the onerous situation and wants to help others as much as she can (Barnes 397).Betty Mahmoody, a women who escaped captivity in 1986 from Iran, assists other people that have similar situations as her; in addition to, wives currently held captive by their husbands in a foreign country, wives seeking protection from their husbands when they return to the U.S., wives who want to divorce their husbands, and wives who don’t want their husbands to gain custody of their children
Betty Mahmoody, born on June 09, 1945 in Michigan led an average American life until her thirties (Barnes 394).When she started to have health problems her life changed forever, she went to Carson City Hospital to get treated; and while continuing her treatment in the hospital, “Mahmoody became attracted to her physician, an Iranian intern named Sayyed Borzoq Mahmoody” and they began to date when she completed her treatment (Barnes 394). Betty and Sayyed got married in a Houston Mosque on June 6, 1977 (Barnes 394). After Sayyed and Betty where married, Sayyed cared for her deeply, and he also put in an application for U.S. citizenship; however, when they lived in Texas he befriended a group of Iranian students who completely changed his demeanor (Barnes 395). Sayyed “withdrew his application for U.S. citizenship and began to focus his energi...

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...rote two books about her miscreant experience: Not without My Daughter and For the Love of a Child. Betty now continues to help people in need through her organization and by getting laws changed to help protects America’s citizens (Betty Mahmoody 2).
Betty Mahmoody learned the hard way that the laws may differ in other countries and how to countenance your fears. Since Betty’s life became stable, she continues to help others in need and; certainly, tries to change American laws to help its citizens to prevent others from going through what she did. You could use the words determined, kind- hearted, and life changing to describe Betty. Betty, a strong woman, became an amazing person for all she has done for her family and other people’s families. Hopefully Betty will continue to help others; and hopefully other people, such as her daughter, will continue her work.

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