[laney]

Oh and your social programs, let's see My grandmother lost her husband from Lung cancer as he worked in the coal mines and she was left with 4 children ages 18 months to 4 years old, there was no Social Security no money and what did she have to do to make ends meet? stand in Bread Lines
sold Boot leg Booze and met a man fianlly to help her out financially she did not LOVe but she needed money bottom line so she and her children could survive.

[A CA Guy]

She had the churches that would help and would back in that day form a collective with other women to watch the kids and take turns working long hours in perhaps jobs as a maid.
If she wasn't capable of life then she could temporarily had put her kids in an orphanage until she got a more stable life.

People were tough back then.

The fact your mother remarried for stability isn't a bad thing, with a whole world available, the fact she couldn't find one to love first seems odd to me.