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That's probably a very valid point there, Ron. However, I'm sure my mother(the one who adopted me, anyway) would have probably bristled at the idea that she was my father's "chattel". And that's 'cause she was kinda like a combination "Post War Rosie the Riveter/June Cleaver", because for many years of my childhood she had full-time employment out there in the workforce. And in fact, once when my father was laid off from his job as an Aerospace engineer for about a year or so, she actually supported the household financially during that time.

(...but yeah, once again, the idea that "gender roles" where starting to change around the early '70s, probably has a lot to do with the idea that women and mothers were no longer financially dependent upon their husbands, and so there were and now are a lot more "options" for the fairer sex)