In English, amongst reading a book called Abomination Mrs Handley our English teacher had the class watch a documentary about Gloriavale. If you haven't heard of Gloriavale its a religious community.
Gloriavale's traditions appear more 19th century possibly earlier. The males do all the handy work. Building, farming, engineering while the females do all the 'easy' tasks. Cooking, making clothes, doing washing, teaching and so fourth.
The education would be from preschool up until year 10, if you are able to become a teacher or midwife example you'd get more education.
Around the age of two or three you'll start to receive chores, putting washing away, vacuuming and as you get older you'd get harder jobs. For females that could be helping with cooking, males could be helping with the farming.
While Gloriavale follows the Christian religion, there is a lot of things they do. You get no say in who you marry, the first meeting is the proposal, and the first time you touch is when you officially get married at the wedding. Many more things are put in place to stay with god.
Those who live in Gloriavale are happy as its the only life they have, they don't know any different from the way they live.
People in Gloriavale don't have the human rights they deserve, they don't get to make choices for themselves, the clothing they wear, what they eat, who they marry and live with and so on. If I had the choice I'd never live in Gloriavale nor be happy living there due to the lack of freedom I'd have.
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