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  I donnot think mothers are under anymore pressure than when I was first married with children .I gave up work when my first child was born .I did not have a washing machine ,just an old mangle housed in the shed .Coal fires .I made most of my childrens clothes and cooked proper meals .My second chid was born twenty months later .My husband and I struggled to get a deposit for our first home a maisonette .
  No holidays just a week or two in Cornwall visiting the family .Birthdays and wedding anniverseries we went out for a meal .Neither of us smoked and we did not have a car .I brought both my new babies home on a bus ,.
  
  When I was widowed all those years ago I erceived a widow Mothers Allowance and a small pension from my husbands employer .I did not go back to work as I left a job open for a youngestr from school .I managed .
  I did go back to work when my first two were seven and nine and then only part time so we could buy a car .
  Times are no harder now .In my day sigh sigh we had to wash Terry Nappies ..
  We were a family and my children were looked after by their parents and sadly when my husband died I had to fill both roles .The only reason I can afford nice clothes now is because of my childrens genoristy I helped them and all have good jobs .

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