I share mixed feelings about the women-in-the-workforce statistic because it makes me wonder about what is happening to the culture and to the children while the mothers work. However, the TAX POLICIES of the United States and the accompanying problems with the costs of housing and life basics are very skewed against one-income, working male head-of-household families. These so-called “conservatives” have not been very persuasive or powerful in the face of government demands on families so it honestly makes me sick to hear them complain about measures that assist working women.
I say this as part of a one-income family. Do something that makes one-income families more likely, and then have the luxury of complaining about Ivanka Trump and her efforts to support working families!!
Truth is that we as a society have managed to inflict SO much damage upon the institution of marriage that if I were a young woman, I would be afraid to NOT pursue a career.
” mixed feelings about the women-in-the-workforce statistic because it makes me wonder about what is happening to the culture and to the children while the mothers work. “
I feel that there is no substitute, in the first 6 / 7 years,for a ‘at home’ wife....
And... a dog to illustrate constant love and affection....
I will say this: I stayed home seventeen years raising kids. It was brutal. No rest, ever, family holidays, up at night, loneliness, people treating you like nothing. The family pathology is magnified when one person is the family slave, everyone else had a life except me. If I had it to do over, I would have worked and gotten a nanny.
At that point in the SOTU I turned to my wife and told her that I didn’t think there was anything to cheer about the fact that 58 percent of new jobs are going to women and certainly nothing to cheer about so many women being elected to the congress because most of those elected are nutcases. She did not disagree at all.
Also, it was one of the harder things *she* did. She worked one night a week for some spending money...and "adult time" :-). The pressure for her to go to work full-time was immense - friends, co-workers, her boss, even her own mother - got after her to work full time. Fortunately she told them all to stuff it. Yet another reason why I married her.
“it makes me wonder about what is happening to the culture and to the children while the mothers work.”
You don’t need to wonder. Just look at the monster, disrespectful, drug addicted, lazy children (and their children) whose mothers bought into the idea of having to work outside the home. Motherhood has to be the hardest job in the world! And once you realize that your adult kids are well-adjusted members of society, it has to be the most rewarding. (I’m not a mother, so can’t say for sure, but that’s what I observe.)