My mother 'was' wrong...She was a very young mother, with 'no' real world experience having been raised in a kind of 'small' New England town. She spent the next twenty or so years, being "not allowed" to work outside the house by a domineering husband, who kept her barefoot, pregnant and dumbed down...

She changed her tune about 'her' personal reality, after finally being able to choose her path in life years later, as a youngish widow and older children out of the house...whereupon 'she' was able to go out and work, meet new people etc.

At 90+ years of age now...her thoughts on the matter are quite, 'rightfully' different.

Thanks for commenting though. Your personal perceptions are just as interesting.