Case in point, one of my daughters is taking a micro economics class. She is doing her paper on "The Economics of Obesity," and told me that the research points to two causes:
1) The change from an agrarian society
2) Mothers entering the workforce.
It wasn't until middle class mothers began to enter the workforce en masse in the mid-eighties that society as a whole began to see an increase in things like school violence.
And the reason its getting even worse is ebcause now a generation of kids who did not have a parent in the home and thus did not learn at an early age good habits are parents themselves..
Okay. Explain all the societal ills associated with islam. Ain't no feminism there.
How is obesity related to mothers entering the workforce? I'm not arguing that it isn't, I just don't see the obvious link.
I can see how the change from an agrarian society is a factor - less manual labor, less exercise. But I have met quite a few overweight farmers! Maybe that's because even though they are "agrarian" they have a lot of machinery to lessen the workload.
Another thing that is very significant as to civilization is that (and this is taught in univeristy):
-- the literacy level overall reduces when mothers are not present in the home during their children's youth.
That is, the more often and frequently that mothers leave the home (work, negligence, hiring nannies to 'relieve' the responsibilities involved in rearing children, whatever reason, just that they leave their children in the care of others even after school hours), the lower the overall literacy rate.
Our SOCIETY actually suffers when women are not the caregivers of their own children, their own family. Children become more literate as the consistency of their mothers being routinely available to them increases. The less time they have with their mothers, the higher the overall illiteracy becomes.
Thus, women with children who leave their care to others due to whatever reason actually reduce the success rate and competency of society in general.
It's established, studied and proven...lest someone decry some 'guilt trip' mentality to that information, as if it's an effort to discourage women from working, taking flight when a nanny is afforded, etc., because most feminists do respond like that, as if it's some effort to coerce them to "be slaves" and such.
Women serve a very, very important place in the ongoing education of their children and among that is that, by remaiing available to children in the home, mothers "work" to improve our society, certainly their own children's abilities.