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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]In[b] fact, for about 90 percent of the population, it wasn't like that pre WWII. Most women either worked or had so much work to do in the home (b/c of no appliances), that they didn't spend a lot of time with their kids. And likely when they did, they were exhausted. [/quote][/b]

[b]And when they were wealthy enough to not have to work and have servants do everything around the house, their kids were taken care of by nannies and governesses, lol.[/quote][/b]

Exactly!  I'm so glad PPs brought these points up.  A) women weren't always full time childcare providers as many people assume and B) those who were wealthy enough hired governesses.  My father was essentially raised by a governess who lived with him and his two younger sisters until they were 13 and went to boarding school.  My dad told me that as young children they were see their parents three times a day - after breakfast, during lunch, and after dinner.  [b]This was the norm for families of the era (pre WWII) and quite common.  [/b]

We have this vision of mothers of previous generations as fully and entirely dedicated to child care.  It's not the case.  [/quote]

Which families was this the norm for? My grand-parents were, respectively, factory workers and small business owners.  My parents certainly were not raised by nannies nor did they go to boarding school.  My mother's mother was a divorced single mother with two kids and she worked a in a textile mill.  My mother talked about her extended family and all her aunts, uncles and cousins whom were around to help each other in her working class neighborhood, mostly Polish, Italian and French-Canadian.  My father's mother was a SAHM.  I think you have no idea what was statistically the norm for the majority of American families before WWII, nor how liberating that war was for a wide swath of the American population.  [/quote]

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