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**Ervntewc** · 05-16-2010, 02:38 PM

Hi PT,

I deleted that part of my post, but must have been doing it at the same time you were writing yours.

Regarding herblore, we can't really say with any certainty whether it worked for women or not.

Re the part I deleted, I was thinking particularly about how, up till a couple of generations ago here in the UK, unmarried women who were pregnant were considered to be in disgrace by their male dominated families and communities and they endured much suffering being sent away to have their babies - which were often adopted and never seen again, because the mothers had no way of being able to earn a living as well as care for a new baby. This meant that they suffered because of the stigma imposed by society as well as because of the loss of the child.

That sort of thing still happens even at the present time. I knew a woman who was working as a teaching assistant in a school where I was teaching, who had been totally rejected together with her son, by titled, rich parents, because of producing an "illegitimate" child.

05-16-2010, 02:38 PM	#13
Ervntewc Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 531 Senior Member	Hi PT, I deleted that part of my post, but must have been doing it at the same time you were writing yours. Regarding herblore, we can't really say with any certainty whether it worked for women or not. Re the part I deleted, I was thinking particularly about how, up till a couple of generations ago here in the UK, unmarried women who were pregnant were considered to be in disgrace by their male dominated families and communities and they endured much suffering being sent away to have their babies - which were often adopted and never seen again, because the mothers had no way of being able to earn a living as well as care for a new baby. This meant that they suffered because of the stigma imposed by society as well as because of the loss of the child. That sort of thing still happens even at the present time. I knew a woman who was working as a teaching assistant in a school where I was teaching, who had been totally rejected together with her son, by titled, rich parents, because of producing an "illegitimate" child.
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