Feninazis won. Nah, more like the economy forced both parents to work. Which many believe was orchestrated intentionally.
I don't completely agree with this. It's DIFFICULT, but it's not impossible. In the modern materialist society, I can see how it would be "impossible," but if we went back to our old ways, cook every meal, care for the things we have, live on an actual budget, it could be done.
The only reason it's difficult is that people want more and more but want to do less to get it.
Women have to do everything now because the men have turned into fleshly sex fiends.
It's not clear to me what the author's intention is in all of this. Economic determinism is not a conservative philosophy.
“Numerous academic studies suggest that more hours spent in daycare in a child’s earliest years is associated with lower social competence and negative behavioral outcomes, and that these persist through childhood and adolescence. Greater amounts of time spent in non-maternal care and younger age of entry into daycare were associated with a greater likelihood of socio-emotional problems and lower cognitive skills.”
Conjunction does not imply causality. One might argue that the children of the lowest-income, least educated parents are most likely to be in daycare, and their lower levels of achievement are due to inheritance.
A family of four can easily be raised on $50,000 a year. One simply has to live at the standard that families lived in the 1960s. Cable TVs, multiple cell phones, multiple computers, several cars, and large houses are expensive. It’s all about choices.
The bigger the family, the cheaper it is for mom to stay home and teach. If she is a professional, telecommuting can often bring her additional income. It is accepting the chains of liberalism that is so costly. Don't.
If a career woman can’t find time for a child she sure as hell can’t find time for you I would never trust one.
Another problem in the mix is the constant drumbeat over ‘Equal Pay For Equal Work”.
Many of the women in today’s work force were raised under the NOW banner & they firmly believe that ‘equal work’ can be measured and quantified in the white collar jobs. I say it cannot.
Unless you are making widgets & there is an actual count of your hourly/daily/weekly production of widgets, there is no accurate way to quantify the ‘equal work’ portion of the formula.
I have worked in both blue collar & white collar jobs, and I have been a full charge bookkeeper for the majority of my life. I still have clients. I have worked for a number of small businesses as a self-employed person. I have seen up close & financially how much a small business struggles to make ends meet & have profits for growth.
Then there is the age old problem of ‘working’ women who want to take off for trips to the doctor or to the dentist for their offspring. The dad rarely takes time off, but the women are gone with nary a thought as to how that absence affects the workplace & who might have to make up the workload she has left behind to tend to her ‘little ones’. Then, when promotions are being considered, the women get left behind because they are not dependable to be there 8+ hours a day & to put their loyalty into the company where they want such Equal Pay ahead of their children.
I say-—have kids, and be prepared to not get promoted until they are 20 & out of the house. Until then, I cannot DEPEND on you as an employee 52 weeks a year & whenever there is any kind of work crunch which has an unmoveable deadline. You will beg off because of ‘the kids’.
I cannot ascertain exactly how YOUR work is EQUAL on a apples to apples basis, since you are gone at random times all year long—for the kids. What you also don’t realize with YOUR absence is that those who don’t have kids had to work harder or stay longer to cover the work you left behind when it all HAD TO GET DONE in a timely manner. You don’t realize one little bit how angry those people are at YOU, when you are all on a equal pay scale & YOU are NOT pulling your fair part of the wagon load.
In short—THEY CANNOT HAVE IT ALL!!!
** feminists have won, although not because they were more persuasive. Only 12 percent of moms believe that working full time is an ideal situation for children, and 74 percent of adults say that mothers working outside the home makes it harder to raise children. About half of adults surveyed believe that children are better off if the mother does not work. **
How can they say the feminists have won when the figure convey the opposite side of the coin? LOL!
If the story is about “Mommy Wars” why does the lead photograph feature a grandma? :)
Its both
Culture and money
Where I live.....white and median income 90k
Most women are moms....or part time
But when I was young....even poor forks...mom raised her kids
It takes a village.
” Jobs that used to pay decently have been replaced by free student labor, or “internships.””
BS
They were replaced by temp agencies who employ illegals.