I’ll be bashed for this but the old ways of most women being homemakers and the government not playing the role of the man in the household was better from a standpoint of civilizational survival.
Women were far more practical about the men they would choose....picking an alcoholic or loser with no prospects could put them and their kids in a terrible position. They also didn’t waste their 20s only to be surprised they could no longer attract good men in their 30s after all their youth was gone like happens so often now.
People tended to stay married and the birthrate was high enough to actually make the population grow.
No it wasn’t perfect and there were people who were put in really bad positions sometimes, but society as a whole was healthier than it is now.
There's a solution to this.
Islam.
Of course, in those days, most men were also responsible bread winners and protected their families, too.
The poor in America are told: “You don’t need to raise your child... The State will do it for you!!!” Cradle to Grave indoctrination...