In a working-class family, an immigrant working-class family in particular, by the '30s and '40s,a child meant income, a child meant a worker.

在三十和四十年代的工人阶级家庭,特别是外来移民的工人家庭,一个孩子意味着收入增加,意味着增加了一名工人

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I'm from an immigrant family, first generation here.

我来自移民家庭，是第一代移民。

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