Farming out your small children to strangers for 30 hours of the week so that you can afford to pay the bills, even though your husband, their father, also works full-time?
I should be fascinated to read, or even to read of, a radical feminist critique of Thatcherism. I cannot see what possible grounds for one there might be.
Thatcher, indeed, pioneered this approach to childcare. She read for the Bar, she found a parliamentary seat and then she climbed the greasy pole, all while her twins were being raised by help that had been hired by her husband, who was a millionaire even then.
When she destroyed the economic basis of traditional family life for countless other people, she had little or no idea what she was causing them to lose. Any more than men raised by nannies and matrons understand such things today.
When she destroyed the economic basis of traditional family life for countless other people, she had little or no idea what she was causing them to lose. Any more than men raised by nannies and matrons understand such things today.
People point to Labour things about this, but they are only working with what Thatcher left them and that is why the Tories all have exactly the same. But nobody ever mentions those.
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