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*** "Home children" are mentioned several times throughout the series, and though mention of their being abused is treated negatively, nobody's at all surprised by it. Mary Vance is the most extreme example: the entire neighborhood knew she was being horribly abused by her "caretaker", but nobody bothered to do anything about it.
** ''Anne of Avonlea'' features a lot of talk about teachers whipping their students and Anne only gains respect from some as a schoolmistress when she beats one of her kids. (Even the kid she beats, Anthony Pye, only starts respecting her ''after'' she thrashes him. Anne, however, always feels that she failed with Anthony, as she had resolved to never hit a pupil.)
** In ''Rainbow Valley'', ''Chronicles of Avonlea'' and ''Further Chronicles of Avonlea'', many, many women are forced to refuse suitors that they actually love because of vows to tyrannical mothers or sisters (some living, some already dead) not to marry. Montgomery never explains ''why'' the women who have lost men whom they love through these promises feel obligated to keep them, or why anyone would believe that such senseless and cruel promises <i>should</i> be kept. There's a bit of [[Double Standard]] to this as well, because the books are full of marriages and elopements engineered to get around dictatorial ''fathers''.
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