[thoughtomator]

I think you're the first person to hit on the key element here... the economy is no longer geared to a single-breadwinner family, but rather to a two-earner family. Thus if the man alone works, he'd better have a damned good income to support a family at modern middle-class standards.

[Judy Jetsun]

Exactly..I really use to think when watching the Brady Bunch that here's a man who is an Architect supporting a family of 7 wife and 6 kids plus a maid! they live in a very nice house and everyone seems to live pretty much a middle class lifestyle, this is not possible in 2006.

Mrs Brady would be working full-time thier would be no maid and the kids would have to get a part-time job if they wanted all the latest toys in technology. (Computers, Cell phones, Blackberry's, plus cable TV, videos etc..)

[teenyelliott]

the economy is no longer geared to a single-breadwinner family, but rather to a two-earner family. Thus if the man alone works, he'd better have a damned good income to support a family at modern middle-class standards.

So make some sacrifices.

What the hell is wrong with people?