This article explores the changing experience of parenting in postwar Wales and considers how ideas, attitudes and aspirations come to change between generations. Drawing on oral testimonies collected from women who became mothers in the former county of Gwent in south-east Wales between 1945 and 1975, the agency of these historical actors in social change is drawn out to show that these generations played a key role in formulating modern parenthood. The findings reveal a tendency to identify a ‘Goldilocks moment’ in which their own parenting was ‘just right’ compared to previous and subsequent generations. Furthermore, narrators tend to disassociate themselves from changes they perceive as being negative and are more willing to claim agency in changes they perceive as positive. As well as giving an important opportunity to hear the voices of an under-researched age-group, the article also causes us to think about the significance of memory and social identities in oral history.

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社会再生产与社会变迁：战后威尔士两代母亲谈论育儿

本文探讨了战后威尔士育儿经历的变化，并考虑了观念、态度和愿望如何在几代人之间发生变化。根据 1945 年至 1975 年间从前威尔士东南部格温特县成为母亲的妇女那里收集的口头证词，绘制出这些历史参与者在社会变革中的能动性，以表明这几代人在制定现代为人父母。研究结果揭示了一种识别“金发姑娘时刻”的倾向，在这种时刻，与前几代人相比，他们自己的养育方式“恰到好处”。此外，叙述者倾向于将自己与他们认为是消极的变化分离开来，并且更愿意在他们认为是积极的变化中声称代理。