I wish people would've stayed happy with the way families were back then.... The husband's job is to work, the wife's job is to give birth to, and teach the kids, and her work is at home doing that.
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Oh please, women have been working outside the home for years . It was just middle class women in the 50's that could afford to stay at home with the kids.very much.
Do you know what happened?, that they were never happy with that because they had bills to pay and that situation existed in books only. Up to the nineteenth century, women worked together with men too, it was the high class minority ladies who could afford being a doormat.
Where I come from it was an agricultural society "back then" and that means EVERYBODY worked in producing food for the whole family to survive on during winter. Men going off outside the home to work and women staying at home is a VERY new development indeed, and one which didn't really have a chance to get a strong foothold here.
And besides, because with that there were wars, hunger, poverty and many other things you are not so fan of.
Have you actually read anything about pioneer life? Farming required everyone--mother, father, children--to pitch in and work. Women went to work in factories during the Industrial Revolution. And those are only two examples.working simply in order to survive that governed most of humanity for most of our history. Women have never had it easy.
And if you really want to do something about working mothers, work to raise our standard of living, because most families cannot survive on the father's salary. It's the economy, stupid.
The problem with the housewife model is that it's more recent than we think. It's actually a victorian model and constrainted to the upper class(a minority, in case you're wondering). Moreover, both my grandmothers had to work sewing clothes at one moment in their life to make ends come, specially after virtually all the children in both families had to take up jobs to merely survive. My mom had to work as secretary to pay the mortgage and my aunt, after 25 years as a homemaker, has given it up and now she's teaching phylosophy in a highschool. What's the bottom line?, money, my dear, money. Moreover, why all those women like Gladys Schlaffy and Kay O'Connor or Margaret Tatcher aren't full time housewives?, surely they will say: "my daughter was ill and there were bills to pay"(Kay O'Connor). In that case, be my guest. Either you're thinking that ordinary women never had that problem or that wellfare should be necessary to make your utopia of the full time homemaker possible. You're the visible example that your theory doesn't work.
Ah, the 'good old days.' Where men were men, women were property, and those durned minorities weren't being given the same rights as the almighty jackass - I mean, white man.
To be honest, these kids may be homeschooled and have a wonderful stay-at-home mom. However, there is a problem, very few people can afford that. Why do Republicans and right wing polititians think that a woman's place is home?, because the highest femenine vote they get is soccermoms, not single mothers or poor families.
But I thought they were only happy then 'cause it was all they'd ever known.....ignorance !== fundie bliss.
My paternal grandmother worked in my grandfather's hardware store. Her mother worked on a farm. My mother was a part-time bookkeeper.
Instead of taking your history from 50's sit coms and Dr. Dosbson, try talking to the people who were actually there. I assure you it will be an eye-opening experience.
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