"Children of the Underground" - TV miniseries about activist Faye Yager

[airportwoman]

This was made by and screened on FX a couple years ago, and I didn't know about it until after it had ended. I finally found it on Hulu/Max and watched the first episode last night.

I do remember when she was extensively in the news in the late 1980s and early 1990s, doing talk shows and the like, and that her activism was financed primarily by her very wealthy second husband, a successful physician. One thing that was addressed was "Are the children and women safe NOW?" There was speculation that the children might possibly be getting abused in their new environments, and also, were they going to school?

That judges refused to believe mothers who had evidence from multiple doctors that their children WERE being abused absolutely blew my mind.

Children of the Underground (TV Mini Series 2022) ⭐ 7.2 | Documentary

48m | TV-MA

www.imdb.com

 

[airportwoman]

I wondered what Ms. Yager did in later years, and found out that she died last year at the age of 75, from cancer.

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/sandy-springs-ga/faye-yager-11926086

 

[airportwoman]

I finished the 5-part miniseries last night, and found this article just now. There is no paywall.

I knew her husband was a successful physician, and he did bankroll it, but this story goes into more detail about how she was able to do what she did in the pre-Internet era.

Faye Yager, the crusader for sexually abused children in Atlanta

In the ’80s and ’90s, Faye Yager operated the clandestine “Children of the Underground” network out of her home in Sandy Springs and helped hundreds of kids escape abusive homes. With her death in August, Yager took most of her secrets with her. But not all.

www.atlantamagazine.com

 

[PsyCat]

I recently wanted to find her to help out a woman who needs to go underground and found out she had passed. Someone needs to take on her work.

 

[airportwoman]

I recently wanted to find her to help out a woman who needs to go underground and found out she had passed. Someone needs to take on her work.

And the organization dissolved in the late 1990s after she hid the children of a very wealthy businessman who was accused of abusing his wife, but not the kids. She simply couldn't compete with him.

There was also, AFAIK, no legal or medical evidence that the abuse happened.