What ever happened to women staying home and taking care of the children and house?

Question

Now a good percentage of households are dual employed instead of a sole breadwinner.

Answer 1

Women were liberated. They actually became real people who can think for themselves & are no longer controlled & submissive to their husbands. They can almost earn same incomes & contribute greatly to the finances of the family.

Those women who stay at home now have made that choice to do so, has nothing to do with having to be a second class human being to the male in the household.'

Answer 2

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Answer 3

If you look at an economically successful home, the wife usually is a full-time mom. Unless you own a business or are up there career wise, one income will not be enough for the mouths to feed and maintain and decent quality of life. Unless again, farmstay is a preferred way of life with eating out consisting of slaughtering a hen.

Answer 4

June Cleaver is dead.....and I helped kill her!

Speaking as a middle-aged woman (ok, "Old Dinosaur"; saw the 1969 Apollo landing and kept thinking, OH, WOWWWW)----
I always wanted a career and figured on working long after I married. Why on earth waste all that college training (and a fairly decent brain, IMHO) by turning into Susie Homemaker? (OK, some women LIKE that, and choose it.....that's for them, but not for me. Ain't diversity great?)

And with increasing costs, two or more incomes are virtually a necessity. (The old rule USED to be "spend about 1/4 of your income on shelter, but don't go over 1/3"----try THAT nowadays! You'll be living in a **storage unit,** if you're in a number of large urban areas.) Even without children, life is expensive.....we like our books, being able to support various causes, our basic pleasures (like heat, cat food for the furbaby, etc.)---and a nest egg for retirement.

Answer 5

Now they have to take care of the kids, the house, AND have a career, because society pressures women to be Wonder Woman, an "ideal" liberated woman who is financially independant and sleeps with whoever she wants. Because its nearly impossible to do with one income unless she makes enough money to hire help, she becomes a a financial drain on the working world because she has to rely on welfare programs. Once she's at home on welfare with no real repsonsiblity to a partner, she becomes lazy, depressed and undesirable , and becomes hopelessly caught in a life of watching soaps and Dr Phil, until she desperately realizes she needs a man. The men that are left are abusers , the good ones grabbing the women who weren;t as "liberated" to begin with.

Answer 6

The women's movement can be traced back to the 1940's when women began working outside the home to cover jobs while their men were gone to fight in WW2. In the late 40's and into the 50s, when men were returning to the work force, women went back to working in the home and started to feel unfulfilled because they'd had a taste of meaningful employment and disposable incomes. In the 60s, the daughters of these women began to demand the right to work outside the home and equal rights in general. Moving into the 70s, these women began to derride their "sisters" for choosing to stay at home. Society also began to look down on women for choosing to remain in the home rather than working outside the home. By the 80s, 90s and today, it was/is more common for mothers to delay having children until they have established their own careers and once they have children, to leave those children with child-care providers. The upside to women working outside of the home is a two-income family with more disposable income and a better ability to provide for their children. The downside is that children are being raised by a series of strangers beginning shortly after birth and continuing throughout their childhood causing a marked increase in psycho-social disorders such as ADD/ADHD, attachment disorders, and depression. I, for one, bucked the new "tradition" of foresaking my children for my career by staying at home to raise my children until they were in school full-time. As a result, I have three emotionally-sound children that are honor-level students as well as productive members of their society.

Answer 7

Alot of the time, the man or women does not make enough dough to fend for the whole household, so the other has to go to work too. When I have children, I will probably stay home with them while they are young.

Answer 8

I gave up a successful career to be a stay-at-home mother. I think my child comes before making money. We have to make sacrifices and don't live as well as I'd like, but I am raising our child, not some stranger at day care.

Answer 9

Many families today cannot afford for the woman to stay home. The cost of living is so expensive they need two paychecks to pay the bills and get by.
I'm lucky enough to be able to stay home while my husband works, but most don't have that option.

Answer 10

well i am not married yet so of course no kids yet. im 21 now and i work my butt off but let me tell u i cant wait to quit my job and start a family. i dont believe in having a baby and the mother going right back to work . no u need to take care of your kids when they are young or dont have them. thats how i will be anyway. when they are in elementary school i can go back to work.