For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an … - Stephanie Coontz

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People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.

Stephanie Coontz

For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making "ladies" dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.

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