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.
My grandmother never worked and never learned how to drive. In fact, whenever she and my grandfather ever went anyplace, she always sat in the back seat with her rosary beads.....LOL!
“Growing up in the 60s (before taxes put all women to work),”
I believe that it wasn’t so much the taxes that put all women to work. It was the feminist movement, which gave employers permission to pay men less than before. That trickled down to the husband not being able to support a family on his salary alone.
It also gave marginal husbands the permission and opportunity to be slackers. Why work so hard if Mama is bringing in bacon, too.
Rush discussed this often. I think it’s covered in one of his books.
“..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....”
Yep. I was raised in the 50s/60s to the same thing. My dad worked outside the home, and my mom was stayed home with us six kids. Each of us had chores to do around the house to help out. The neighbors, the ones that I can remember, were the same way. Times sure were different back then.
FWIW, today would have been my parents’ 74th wedding anniversary. They’re both long passed now. Miss them much.
Myself, growing up in the late 1960s/early 1970s, my mom and my friends’ mom’s stayed home. My mom’s rule was be home when the streetlight came on. My mom knew where I was...either in the basement running my model railroad layout, or at my friends’ house or fishing at BAP Pond or motorcycling/snowmobiling.