I recently read an article in The Atlantic from February 1939 by the psychiatrist, Karl A. Menninger, and the state of affairs it outlined sounded shockingly familiar:
“We are left at a rather hopeless impasse. The social and economic structure deprives women of children and antagonises them toward children. The children reflect this in their subsequent associations with other adults and with the next generation. Men turn from women to the company of other men and thus thwart women further, and they in turn inflict more aggressions upon men and upon children,” Menninger wrote.
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