The mother's battle for her child with sickness with poverty with war with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle waged in love and in the passion for survival.
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.