I expect a large part of the decline is because more mothers have jobs.
Exactly what I was thinking.
We don’t qualify because I started working again.
Why am I working?
Cuz kids are really really expensive.
I wonder what the percentage is if they add working moms back in.
I expect a large part of the decline is because more mothers have jobs.
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Stay-at-home mothers are almost an extinct species. The shift towards working mothers was amplified to an extreme under Carter’s economy because dear ole dad, if he was lucky enough to still have a job, couldn’t afford the basics with runaway inflation and loan shark interest rates.
Combined with the women’s rights movement of the 70’s the traditional American family was no more. Lots of other reasons contributed to the destruction of the Leave It To Beaver type family but the Democrats killed it.
Back then, kids stayed out until the street lights came on and no one was too worried what they were up to. They got to be kids. There was a mom a child could run to at every house on the street — anyone’s mom — if the kids needed something and there was the watchful eye of a mom — anyone’s mom — at every house on the street protecting the kids and having direct phone access to every other mom.
The mothers went to work and the kids, left alone, became the real life embodiment of Lord of the Flies as we see today.
I agree. I’ve been a stay at home mom since my oldest was 1 year old. I recently started working part time evenings and weekends just to help make ends meet.
Most of the young families we know have parents in their first marriage, but mom works part time; even among homeschooling moms.