
The wicked? stepmother
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The Role of Step-Mothers in Matri-Local
The Renaissance is your area, isn't it? What do we know about the... I don't want lots of stats from you, but if you have them, that would be great. But is the step-mother a more common... Would we meet more of them if we were wandering around in Renaissance England? Absolutely. There are two kind of social factors that really made a huge importance. Men did not want to bring up children on their own and they would remarry quite quickly. And so that's very much to do with patri-local. It happens when the women are moved into a household in which the man is the main absolutely commands the money,. The woman has to please that
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