Parents share authority
Killian and Bolick's parents shared authority and responsibility as parents, the pair recalls.
Citing this Excerpt
Oral History Interview with Kathryn Killian and Blanche Bolick, December 12, 1979. Interview H-0131. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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- JACQUELYN HALL:
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Who would you say was the boss of the family? Whose word was law?
- BLANCHE BOLICK:
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I think it was equal. Yes I do, don't you?
- KATHRYN KILLIAN:
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Mama and daddy got along fine. They were a good example to us
children.
- JACQUELYN HALL:
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So did they ever disagree about things, about how to raise you all?
- KATHRYN KILLIAN:
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I feel sure they did, but they didn't do it in front of
us.
- JACQUELYN HALL:
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So you never saw your parents fighting?
- KATHRYN KILLIAN:
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Not among themselves. They believed in peace. That's the way
they tried to raise us.
