Regents of the University of Michigan Remarking on the importance of raising children to her parents and women of her own generation, one white woman said: I think it was just assumed. Especially in those days. Thinking back, I think women of my age back then it was just assumed that you would marry and have children. Another woman recalled her parents' view: I would marry, have the required two or three children and be a homemaker. Only if my husband died would I need this career that I was being trained for.

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