Posted on 05/29/2013 12:14:10 AM PDT by Olog-hai
In a trend accelerated by the recent recession and an increase in births to single mothers, nearly four in 10 families with children under the age of 18 are now headed by women who are the sole or primary breadwinners for their families, according to a report released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center.
The report reveals a sweeping change in traditional gender roles and family life over a few short decades: The number of married mothers who out-earn their husbands has nearly quadrupled, from 4 percent in 1960 to 15 percent in 2011. Single mothers, who are sole providers for their families, have tripled in number, from 7 to 25 percent in the same period. …
But the Pew Research report shows that Americans are decidedly ambivalent about mothers who work outside the home. Three-fourths of those surveyed say these mothers make raising children harder, and half worry that it’s bad for marriages. …
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
And the US government can take credit for that!
The US government actively promotes single women having children (through generous welfare programs), and through equal rights programs, the US government pushes compa it’s to promote women over better qualified men in the interest of “diversity.”
SO yer sayin a nation of ‘Julias’ would be a bad thing?
Lots of kids with no chance of ever being home schooled.
DId you read the article? It does not include single woman....these are married woman who make more than their husbands due to advance education which woman did not have in prior generations.
Marriage was destroyed when there is nothing special that can be between a man and a woman, that cannot be gained when there is no responsibility or obligation to women who have no control with their favors anymore.
Whether anyone will admit it or not, the purpose of marriage is COMMITMENT, and raising of a family of values....casual sex without consequence is now the norm, and if a "mishap" occurs as a result, you can legally kill the baby, and go on your merry way continuing Fluking without commitment.
My wife makes 4 times as much as I do, not that I am badly paid. Does that make her the bread winner in our household?
Sure it does. FTA:
The number of married mothers who out-earn their husbands has nearly quadrupled, from 4 percent in 1960 to 15 percent in 2011. Single mothers, who are sole providers for their families, have tripled in number, from 7 to 25 percent in the same period. …
15% + 25% = the 40% of the headline, where single women are in fact the majority.
Married women only 15%.
It also includes women who have to kill themselves slaving to save their families because their husbands are worthless pot smoking commies who won't get a job.
Yes, /rant off
Half hearted lol.
The continued demasculization of our country.
That’s what women wanted, right? Isn’t this why they emasculate boys from the cradle to adulthood and beyond?
If women want to pretend to be men, why wouldn’t men sit around the house all day smoking pot and watching TV? A man’s motivation for achievement and accomplishment is stripped away when all his life and from all directions he’s told that “women can do it just as well as you - or better!”
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