So true
but during the depression, my grandmother raised 8, and had no electric washing machine until after WW2 ended.
Arranged marriage, and he must have raped her repeatedly, because she told me he was mean, drank, and she never loved him.
So much for happy wife happy life. She did divorce him. When my dad wanted us to finally meet him, he told us he had been in WW1, and been gassed by the Germans with mustard nerve gas.
So sounded like ptsd, and pain from nerve damage, so they drank.
My dad was the complete opposite. Compassionate yet stearn and tactfull. My mom was treated like gold. Dad was her prince charming. Together till death, 54 years.