[ SECRET POST #4920 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4920 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I would think that in Victorian times that would be actually kind of true? Infant mortality was still very high I believe so it might be kind of expected to lose some of your children as infants? Not saying it wouldn't be hard, but I can imagine that at a time with high infant mortality you might be more prepared for the death of an infant than you would a spouse.

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Assuming that because something happened more often and there were more obvious disadvantages to being widowed is backwards thinking. The shame of losing a child would have been heightened given their (more common) greater fervency for religion as well as it being the woman's 'reason for being', not to mention the view that babies were innocent would have sharpened the dagger.

[(Anonymous)]

The grief was handled in a different way I think. My friend was a midwife volunteering in an African country with a high infant mortality rate. The mothers wouldn't react, just carry on. You think they weren't grieving? They undoubtedly were but your brain needs to protect itself too.