You aren’t the first kid that fell in with a monster.
Pairing: May Gage (OFC)/OMC
Warnings: abusive relationship (physical and emotional), touch starvation, a whole BOATLOAD of internalized aphobia, threatened violence against animals, unenthusiastic consent, non-explicit mentions of sex, A Whole Premeditated Murder
Notes: part of my Love and Other Fairytales Verse, taking place about 45 years before the main story
No-fault divorce laws were not passed in Ohio until 1974, four years after the events of the story.
Some notes on the timeline of midwifery as a practice in the united states:
May does not, at the time of the story, have an actual nurse-midwife degree, and Trudi never did. At the time of the story, these things were not required. By the 1960s, 97% of all births in the US happened in hospitals, and the practice of midwifery was confined mostly to black and poor white communities who did not have access to such. It was difficult, impractical, and largely unpopular to try and regulate midwives, and they had become so unpopular in favor of hospitals and anesthetics, there was little drive to try.
However, midwifery saw a resurgence in the late 60s-to mid-80s, largely as a result of the woman’s movement; feminists maintained that childbirth was natural, and hospitalization and supervision by a physician were not required.
As time went on, more licensed medical professionals pushed for regulations and the end of unlicensed midwifery, and these efforts began to pass in the mid-80s, requiring midwives to be overseen by a physician, and then fully regulating the practice by the mid-90s. At that point, May went to school and got a license to practice on her own, so she does have a nurse-midwife degree in the main storyline, but not at this point in the timeline.
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