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To: Altariel
OK; you win.

My being the bread-winner and taking pride in being able to free my wife from having to work outside the home (and do the child-rearing, and home organization, and etc.) is not "Traditional", in your book.

In mine, that's the natural order of things, and my wife is AT LEAST 50% responsible for all that we've had and have, and our perspective is based on those values.

111 posted on 02/27/2012 1:31:30 PM PST by traditional1 (Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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To: traditional1

It’s not whether it’s “traditional” in my book, it’s whether that has been “traditional”, historically speaking.

Historically, *everyone* lived, played and worked in/near the home. The Industrial Revolution changed that, getting men, women and children working outside the home in factories, etc.

Sons learned the family trade from their fathers, and mothers learned how to be a good wife from their mothers. The industrial revolution changed that traditional dynamic, forever.

I’m glad you have enjoyed the positive aspects of the Post-Industrial Revolution family model, but pretending that a societal family model which has existed for less than 200 years is “traditional” while ignoring/downplaying a family model which has been documented for *millennia* is not a “traditional” attitude, nor a “natural” one.


124 posted on 02/27/2012 6:27:31 PM PST by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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