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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of my issues with this whole discussion is that it relies on a Leave it to Beaver fantasy of family life that few attained in the past, certainly not my AA ancestors (all married before having children, thank you) or my Irish immigrant great-grandmother. Those ladies worked from necessity, often when prejudice kept their men from being gainfully employed. They raised sons and daughters who valued higher education and careers for women and men alike. My grandfather once widowed kept his home on his own because he didn't want his eight daughters interrupting their studies and jobs to cook and clean for him. My father is a bigger feminist than my mother because his mother had to give up her factory job when men came home from the war and she never made as much afterwards.[/quote]

Yep.  I had a Gma who supposedly dabbled in prostitution because her husband couldn't support the family on his own.  This is what traditionalists want us to return to.[/quote]

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