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It's not surprising that this attitude is coming back around. I think a lot of it stems from the fact that young women have object examples in their own families of 50-60-something women who never married and had children but instead were married to their careers, and are miserable for it. I know we have such in our family and it is sad.

I tend to subscribe to G. K. Chesterton's view:

"When domesticity, for instance, is called drudgery, all the difficulty arises from a double meaning in the word. If drudgery only means dreadfully hard work, I admit the woman drudges in the home, as a man might drudge at the Cathedral of Amiens or drudge behind a gun at Trafalgar. But if it means that the hard work is more heavy because it is trifling, colorless and of small import to the soul, then as I say, I give it up; I do not know what the words mean. To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labors and holidays; to be Whiteley within a certain area, providing toys, boots, sheets, cakes and books, to be Aristotle within a certain area, teaching morals, manners, theology, and hygiene; I can understand how this might exhaust the mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it. How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness."

I certainly don't begrudge women the right to work if they so choose. However, I think for most women, long-term happiness is more likely to be found in the home with the family than in the office with an ever-shifting crew of colleagues.

Women are the chief civilizers of society. I think that part of the reason our civilization is so corrupt today is because a majority of children aren't really raised by their own mothers but by "social engineers" in the form of daycare workers and public school teachers.