Freidan's rambling was consistent with the drumming of the Liberal mantra into childrens' heads in the NEA-controlled indoctrination centers, called public schools.
The destruction of the nuclear family, and subsequent prolifieration of latch-key kids and lack of family-instilled values have evolved to where the "it takes a village" mentality has pushed the country to the brink of lawlessness and victim-hood as the excuse....
Don’t count out the feminism movement when looking for destroyers of the family.
There generally is a free market, and with taxes being harsh, but generally even, people will pay what they can for the basic necessities such as food, transportation, and shelter. Since shelter tends to be the biggest, and least flexible chunk (long mortgage, slow to build, long to buy), it is the most socially manipulable.
Consider:
All families will get the best that the bank allows them to afford. Let’s say that you have a population where all families are 1x or single income, but one is 2x or both parents work thanks to feminist propaganda. This 2x family will outbid a 1x family for a house. Since housing supply is fairly static, the prices are what move.
So now to afford the same house, the 1x family has to make 10% more money. So what do they do? They become a 2x family too! But that further increases the housing prices. Pretty soon, the 1x families can no longer afford a house at all.
I keep re-reading your post. You’ve nailed it.
I’m trying to find the facts that - because of taxation - what used to take a father some 40 hours a week (back in the 1950’s) to support a family now takes a mother and a father working some 60-70 hours plus each week just to maintain the same economic level.
Why is it a necessity that moms go to work? Uncle Sam wants it that way as he keeps taking and taking and....
Not quite true, but it really was World War II that caused women to start working because the men were off to war, but your emotional outburst is interesting.