Many families have had to abandon the traditional family to become a single parent family because their loved one died in the war. I was also in the period when women were fighting for rights. Also, the great movement of African Americans from the South to the North to work in factories because many men were killed in the war and they needed people to replace the white workers. People had to adapt to work environments due to women working due to the lack of men not returning from war. And those who came back from the war wanted their jobs back and for women to work in their jobs. Women were now so used to earning money in the factory instead of earning 15 dollars a week being a maid and housekeeper versus earning 40 dollars a week working in the factory. The women had to leave the factories, but they didn't leave happy, so they founded a women's rights movement. After the war, soldiers returned home with mental disorders due to the trauma of the war itself, were mistreated and locked up in mental institutions and labeled as if they were crazy. And at the same time African Americans were being lynched and killed, their only therapy was the local pastor at church. In those days they didn't have a real psychologist, the counselors were the church and the
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