[Gay State Conservative]

If the household income allows for one of the two spouses to be “at home” that’s great.Particularly if it’s the wife who’s at home...raising the kids,keeping the house running. Both the breadwinner’s contribution *and* the wife’s are important. Vitally important.

[hardspunned]

I’m old enough to remember when everyone’s mom stayed at home. Growing up in the 60s (before taxes put all women to work), moms were home and your original (almost no divorce or illegitimacy) dad brought home the bacon.

[Aevery_Freeman]

Unfortunately, excessive taxation has made a one-income lifestyle almost impossible.

We need all that tax money to pay for the societal ills of unsupervised and/or fatherless children.

[dfwgator]

But women entering the workforce, greatly increased the available supply of labor, putting downward pressure on wages.