“Is Dad the New Mom?”
No, he’s just been unemployed for three years. But, yeah, ABC, spin it to make it sound like more dads are staying home voluntarily.
I did it for a year when Main Frames computers joined the Do Do Bird. Believe me. No one respects Mr. Mom. Especially Mom.
I did it for a year when Main Frames computers joined the Do Do Bird. Believe me. No one respects Mr. Mom. Especially Mom.
Truer than you know. As for feminism, we all know it was pushed by a certain group. In his incisive '70s critiques of the movement, George Gilder concluded that feminism serves the class interests of upper-middle-class professionals with advanced degrees. In other words, it's a guild ideology.
But it caught on because the '60s turned into the '70s. A movement that made working women virtuous and progressive was latched onto because a one-paycheck household became less reachable. (Not to mention the zero-check households that resulted from higher unemployment in that decade.) Feminism became mainstreamed because it made a virtue out of a necessity for many American families.
And, of course, working wives pay taxes; stay-at-home moms don't. So there wasn't much objection in government circles ;)
The stay-at-home-dad movement is, again, making a virtue out of necessity.
While I'm on the subject, Gilder also pointed out that Soviet attempts to make fileds like medicine gender-equal resulted in the fields being dominated by women. The men left.