“the stress that cooking puts on people, particularly women, may not be worth the trade-off”
Yeah, stuffing your children with garbage food from grossly overpriced fast food restaurants and watching them blow up like blimps, get Type II diabetes at age 21 and heart disease at age 29 is far less stressful, particularly for the mothers. On the plus side, if the husband has a LARGE life insurance policy and he kicks the bucket prematurely from a eating a diet of crap all his (short) life, that might take away a bit of the sting. Still, on the downside, he’s just as likely to develop some chronic, debilitating disease that might not be worth the tradeoff after all.
(BTW, its mostly been the males in my extended family who have been the cooks, and that’s been the case with most of my best friends, and in almost every other case in my experience, the cooking duties have been split. So, this “burden” on the woman is nonsense as well. Oh, and something tells me Amanda probably doesn’t like to cook.)
Unfortunately today you have a whole generation being brought up on Mac & Cheese and Chicken nuggets
I am utterly amazed/shocked/saddened at my friends/family members with kids who simply don't eat from the diner table.
Growing up, I ate what the family ate and couldn't leave the table until I finished my plate. Not today, instead the parents will go into the freezer and microwave them crap like Mac & Cheese, Chicken nuggets, Pizza Bagels, etc. And we are talking older kids like pre-teens to.
Last Christmas I got into a fight with some of my relatives because I was embarrassed because my new girlfriend spent a lot of time cooking a nice dinner to make a good impression on everyone, yet my relatives who are parents made her sad and work for nothing because they all brought frozen diners & McDonalds for the kids.
When asked, they just say "Oh he/she won't eat anything else". uuuummmm your the parent right?
Sad, sick society we live in