Jane Cheney Spock
Significant Others
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Jane and Ben's Relationship in the 1920s
Jane and Ben Cheney met at Yale in the 1920s. She was a brainy flirt who convinced him that a woman's place wasn't only in the home. They were married in 1927, with the word obey very modernly omitted from the vows. Jane went on to work as a research assistant for a doctor studying links between mental health and physical illness. The focus of her work on the analyst's couch had turned, as it always does, to childhood.
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