Hey! Thanks for this post.
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It’s a womans rights issue to me.. women were in a difficult marriage (in need of financial help etc) were not treated well in those years
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I agree. You know I am looking back and it is difficult to believe those times. My mother had an allowance. My father would line us all up (including my mother) and tell us that this was our allowance for the week. She'd have to stand there with the rest of us and wait for her $5.00 dole out! Dad would look down at her and say, "Don't spend it all in one place!" pat her on the head with spite...that kind of thing. That must have been so humiliating!
When she finally divorced him, the one credit card she had in her own name cancelled her. She was now after all a single woman and incapable of making financial decisions on her own behalf.
That kind of thing was the norm back then. A friend of mine...her dad had his designated chair...no one was allowed to sit in it but him. When his car would pull into the driveway their mom would shoo them from the chair saying, "Get out of the chair quick before your father sees you!! You know no one but him is allowed in that chair!" He'd come sit in the chair and be waited on hand and foot. Good grief!
Those things were circa 60's but in 75, a girl I knew was murdered by her husband. She'd tried everything to get away from him but there was no Rainbow House back then, no haven. The police would come to the door and tell her to get her marraige together. She'd be beat hafl to s**t. Now she's in the ground and he's doing life without parole at Marquette. Two lives gone. Shaking my head....
With all of that, it's no wonder things were as they were with sex and adoption and back alley abortions.
What a mess it was huh?
Janey