He has every right to express that opinion, and I don’t disagree. But the thing is there are very few families that can make it on one salary these days. I was very lucky to live in a home with a full-time homemaker for a mother. the flattening of the middle class has made it more difficult to survive, much less thrive on one income.
He has every right to express that opinion, and I don’t disagree. But the thing is there are very few families that can make it on one salary these days. I was very lucky to live in a home with a full-time homemaker for a mother. the flattening of the middle class has made it more difficult to survive, much less thrive on one income.
I now live in a relatively poor rural area, where the single-income homeschooling families I know make sacrifices to be able to have the home lives they have developed. A lot depends on priorities and what people are willing to sacrifice.
Fair question. I don't believe so. It was supposed to be a choice- an option. Women's intellectual gifts and artistic creations have made some wonderful contributions to the world. Unfortunately, it turned into a pressure- an economic necessity in many cases. I blame the shrinking of the middle class on corporations moving their manufacturing overseas, paying slave wages and reaping huge profits. If the government represented us, instead of those companies, things would be different. But corporations fund their election. Also WAY too much war spending. 800 military bases across the world. Russia has one, and China has 2.
He has every right to express that opinion, and I don’t disagree. But the thing is there are very few families that can make it on one salary these days. I was very lucky to live in a home with a full-time homemaker for a mother. the flattening of the middle class has made it more difficult to survive, much less thrive on one income.
I now live in a relatively poor rural area, where the single-income homeschooling families I know make sacrifices to be able to have the home lives they have developed. A lot depends on priorities and what people are willing to sacrifice.
That is true.
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Could that all have been premeditated too when the big push for women to have careers started? It sounded liberating at the time, but was it? 🤔
Fair question. I don't believe so. It was supposed to be a choice- an option. Women's intellectual gifts and artistic creations have made some wonderful contributions to the world. Unfortunately, it turned into a pressure- an economic necessity in many cases. I blame the shrinking of the middle class on corporations moving their manufacturing overseas, paying slave wages and reaping huge profits. If the government represented us, instead of those companies, things would be different. But corporations fund their election. Also WAY too much war spending. 800 military bases across the world. Russia has one, and China has 2.
Unfortunately in too many cases two incomes are needed to pay for the big house and nice cars
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