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Old 27-01-2009, 23:33   #47
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Re: Young tearaways around the Roegreave Rd area

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Originally Posted by MargaretR View Post
'both parents working' is a situation which has been common in Lancashire since the Industrial revolution. My mother worked in t'mill and her mother before that.
It is not mothers working that appears to be the problem, but rather what happens to that extra income.
Very valid point, and I've made it myself before.

The vast majority of families in this part of the world had women who went out to work in t'mills.

Nothing to do with female liberation, or modern society, just a fact.
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