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Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful. Research has since proved that assumption wrong.

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Jill Lepore

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Middle-class mothers and fathers turned out to be a very well-defined consumer group, easily gulled into buying almost anything that might remedy their parental deficiencies.

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You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters so that there’s a real entry into the story – that some quality speaks to the individual.

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May 3, 2024

You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters so that there’s a real entry into the story – that some quality speaks to the individual.

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May 3, 2024

Middle-class mothers and fathers turned out to be a very well-defined consumer group, easily gulled into buying almost anything that might remedy their parental deficiencies.

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