Well in farm families (great grandparents were farmers) everyone did everything with great grandmother doing the cooking and working out in the fields with the men. Military family grandparents, same thing, you did what needed doing. It was with the hippy dippy parents where all that went out the window (briefly, before it all went kaput), and in jobs with suburban types where I began to be cautioned not to lift 25 pound objects for fear that my uterus would fall out!
Yeah, I hate it when that happens.