Call the Midwife...or the Turners?

[Maireas]

I noticed that the last thread was full, so I hope no-one minds that I've started a new one!

Vi appears fo have had a personality transplant this series and become totally officious, unlikeable and cardboard.

@Maireas

These are such important issues, domestic violence, abortion, trauma, the Partition of India, but why do we need Dr Turner to mansplain it? The House of Lords ignoring women, the British mistakes in the Partition, the nature of trauma. At least Trixie wrote the letter, not him.

Yes, such a know all and so patronising plus putting a modern perspective on the partition, not convinced he would have seen it at that way at the time

No not Dr Turner, I’ll have another doctor, no it’s Dr who either. Is me or there seems to be more lectures in this series?.

True, @woodhill, that is a revisionist view

He's like it with every issue isn't he?

Centimetres! In the sixties, I don’t think we dealt in forrin measurements then thank you very much. Clutches cardigan to bosom and raises eyebrows in surprise.

Centimetres indeed! Has Dr Turner explained metric measurements yet?

@Maireas

Centimetres indeed! Has Dr Turner explained metric measurements yet?

I don’t think so, but I would just like to say that as far as I am concerned I for one would like to hear it.

draws up teal coloured chair "explain centimetres, please Dr Turner!

I was half expecting that from Nancy tbh…

Seriously... They would refuse a woman a job just because of something that happened when she was a teenager?

While the father carries on with no consequences.

Yes. The woman was considered to be of bad character. It persisted for so long, that in the late 80s a headteacher told my colleague to pretend she was married when she got pregnant.
So many girls and women ostracised.

I was thinking that about Vi! I think it’s the social distancing- she’s always been officious but normally a touch on the arm from Fred softens her.

So fit widower is going to become a benefactor for the Nunatus' Asian Women's Outreach Project. The council won't donate to a place which is outspoken on political hot potato's like abortion. Vi will oppose the decision.

I also can't believe that a women you had a baby adopted as a teenager in the 60s meant career suicide later in life.

Terrifying that Sister Julienne has chosen that moment to remember to be pious.

How does that tally with the girl last week who was going to university? They never said she couldn’t now?

Was it because the child wasn't adopted but in a children's home?

Feel like it was 'back in the room' tonight.

Agree with the Dr Turner comments too. He's so am dram.

There was a very good BBC documentary about Partition a couple of years ago, I think Anita Rani presented it.

I thought the difference was that her baby hasn't been adopted, just put in an orphanage so she is still able to see her every week. If the baby had been adopted she would have no contact at all and would be expected to just get on with her life.

Sorry @Aroundtheworldin80moves - there's a bit of a delay! 🤣

Even last year my mum suggested that if my ivf works and I become a solo mum that I put Mrs Sunbird on any school forms… I set her straight on that one, nobody cares any more

I didn't know Sister Julienne could be such a cow.

It does seem very much that they’re using the nuns to portray the general attitude of the times and then having Dr Turner be all modern and forward-thinking to show them how old-fashioned and wrong they are

Where I'm from being an unmarried mother in 1967 was a huge, massive scandal. It's hard to fathom now, but it truly was.

My friend was married off a few days after her 16th birthday to her ghastly 24 year old 'boyfriend' in the 1970s, rather than her become an unmarried mother.

Pregnant girls always had to leave school, and so she gave up all her dreams of A levels.

I've always detested her parents for that.