Makes me sick, page-92

it is an utter fiction that mothers have always stayed at home looking after their children. Pre ww2 working class mothers balanced (and often with difficulty) looking after what was often large families (no contraception) and supplementing the low incomes of their husbands. many had no husbands because the dreadful conditions in which many of them worked killed then off.

wealthy families farmed their kids out to others to care for.

the history of womens’ work roles is far less cut and dried than the carefully curated post war version which was designed primarily to get women out of the offices and factories they had worked in during the war - enjoying comparative freedom - with the intention of releasing jobs for returned servicemen, creating babies to fill the enormous hole created by the death of millions and to provide succour for men.

you are simply showing that you have taken on a narrative that reflects a particular period in history