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    'Ungovernable' Brings Up Grim Realities Of Victorian Child-Rearing

    Therese Oneill's new book presents plenty of suitably eyebrow-raising excerpts, but amid the snark at parenthood past and present, there are some unavoidable issues that come at a fraught time.
    by Genevieve Valentine Apr 19, 2019 2 minutes
    <em>Ungovernable: The Victorian Parent's Guide to Raising Flawless Children</em>, by Therese Oneill

    Sometimes history offers a marker of how far we've come. Sometimes, there's He-Man.

    Among the Victorian excerpts in Therese Oneill's is some 1838 advice to mothers, warning them that "by the innate consciousness of being born to bear rule, [boys] will sooner revolt from the authority of woman." In 2017, the series did an episode on , where marketer Mark Ellis

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