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XII. Families in Wartime<br />
• 3 million families suffer wartime<br />
separation<br />
• Marriage & birth rates soar (“goodbye<br />
babies”)<br />
• More divorces too as hasty marriages<br />
unable to survive strains of war<br />
• Working mothers suffer criticism that they<br />
neglect children (“victory girls”)<br />
• Some males vets have trouble accepting<br />
new independence in their wives<br />
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