As for the Muslim men comment, I need to expand -- Muslim men who make their women wear burkhas and be covered up all the time, Muslim men who "honor kill" females at the slightest provocation, Muslim men who divest themselves of blame for indulging their own lust if a woman is anything but fully covered in public -- those are cowards, and that is what happens to women when the males around them fail to be men.
Society's malaise today was not caused by, nor will it be cured by, women with kids who also choose to have careers. Kids do best when their parents bond, follow their dreams despite what you or Dr. Laura or any other person would presume to criticize, and bring the kids along for the ride.
If Dr. Laura was dispensing advice in the early 1800s, she'd tell many a pioneer family, the ones who Tamed the West and helped forge this great nation, that they were being irresponsible and horrible to follow their dreams; she'd tell them to stay safe and sound in Boston or England, rather than "put the children at risk." And our country would be several generations ahead of where it is now in terms of cowed, effeminate men.
You agree that we (as a country) suffer malaise. What I am trying to say is that women who have been gung ho feministas thru the years have been systematically neutering boys & men in our society. One major political achievement in the '70s was Affirmative Action.
Mind if I skip your last paragraph? Neither 150 years in the past nor 100 years in the future ; we have to deal with today. Let me ask you a question: What has caused the decline of American manhood??
WMD, for ex. I remember hearing him say "Bring it on"! and I said, way to go, GB! But the left gave him just a little flak, and the next day or so he made some muling criticism of his own words. All thru the 7 years following 9/11, and in the end he withheld any criticism of Hussein (Barry).