Summary of “People Don’t Know Right from Wrong Anymore
Lillian B. Rubin first interviewed Marguerite Jenkins for her book Worlds of Pain: Life in the Working Class Family. At the time of the interview, Marguerite had been married, twenty years old with two young children, and a husband who routinely lost jobs. Now, twenty or more years later, Marguerite was divorced, and her high school age daughter had just gotten an abortion. Marguerite was infuriated, and worried that Candy, only seventeen, would make some of the same unfortunate choices that led to her own situation.
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