Call me a traditionalist, or an old fart, whatever you prefer...idiot will work too. I agree to an extent with Buzz on this. I think statistics show the decline in the family structure has changed quite a bit (divorce, out of wedlock births, ect) with the woman's liberation "movement" if you will. I'd obviously prefer the mom to stay home and have an influence on the young ones then send them off to a day care to be watched by someone that just doesn't care quite as much.
That being said, times have changed Buzz and there's probably no going back at this point. Women now make decent incomes and help pay the bills, the car payments, the vacations, ect. Certainly pros and cons to this. Lifestyles go up, nicer cars, nicer home, better vacations for the kids, ect.
Just my .02 cents. It is what it is, women work now and make good money doing so...that isn't going to change.
Edit: I'd like to add something I just thought of. A woman's (and man's) role in society is really determined by society/culture. The role of a woman in say Rwanda is certainly going to be different then the role of a woman in America. In Rwanda, families are still trying to survive in a "pioneer" lifestyle...i.e. the man goes out and is sole job is to provide food and clothing for him family and that's it...Plasma tvs and BMW's are of zero consequence to this family. In American, 99.9% of families are no longer trying to just "put food on the table". The big question in life now is, boy, I'd really like to go to Disney World, purchase that brand new Nissan, and that 65" LCD would look great in the basement. Even in America, this aspect has changed dramatically since my dad was a boy in the 40's and 50's when he had to work the farm. Heck, my grandfather, now 90, had to drop out of school before high school to "work the farm". So of course my grandmother didn't work much...she raised the kids because money wasn't the issue....food and labor was.
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