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I found this article interesting as well because it is so anti-sterotypical of that time. You normally don't hear that the husband helped with the kids. I think that was extremely progressive for that time period. It was also interesting because she seemed so torn about wanting to work because she liked her job and wanting to be home for the children and have a better relationship with them.~~Mary Beth Conrad | I found this article interesting as well because it is so anti-sterotypical of that time. You normally don't hear that the husband helped with the kids. I think that was extremely progressive for that time period. It was also interesting because she seemed so torn about wanting to work because she liked her job and wanting to be home for the children and have a better relationship with them.~~Mary Beth Conrad | ||
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| + | I think that in today's society Boggs would have no problem having a family as well as having a fruitful career. It seems as if she couldn't imagine remaining at work because of how she perceived her relationship with her first son. I feel like her struggle to bond with her child would not be present today. There were such high expectations after the war to be the ultimate parent and to create the "best" children for the future. Boggs had the relationships of other mothers and sons of the time period (and the ideal) to compare herself to. Today it seems as if parenting dynamics have adapted and are more like what Boggs and her husband had in the 1950's. -- Meredith Bojarski | ||
== Wilma Mankiller, "Indian Relocation" - 1993 about life in the 1950s == | == Wilma Mankiller, "Indian Relocation" - 1993 about life in the 1950s == | ||
