The World My Mother Lived In – Unbelievable Posted on September 2, 2013 by shawnnaSeptember 2, 2013 This is a pretty amazing clipping from a 1950’s era newspaper title “If a Woman Needs It, Should She Be Spanked?” I was born in 1954 and I always wondered why my mother was so extraordinarily screwed up. This sheds some light on it for me.