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Traditional German Children's Book

 
 
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Reply Thu 4 Sep, 2003 04:20 pm
Nah - that would have been one of Grimm's folktales!
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Reply Thu 4 Sep, 2003 04:24 pm
But, of course, you are right, Fbaezer - submission of children's wills to those of their parents, unquestioningly, was considered a natural virtue until very recently in European and colonial parenting history. Women never really grew up - we were supposed then to submit to our husbands.
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