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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
I think that's a whole lot of malarchy. Women working is not some new phenomenon. Blaming today's ills on both partners of a marriage working for a living doesn't add up at all, since this has been a thing since the Great Depression - and most people in the Villages hadn't even been born yet. Those who were, would probably not even remember it - they'd be in their 90s now and they would've been under 10 at the time.
You can't blame it on the internet either - it's been around since the 1980's. Social media actually predates the world wide web; the first dial-up bulletin board system went online in 1978.
Can't blame cable TV - that's been around since 1948 and was common in the 1980's.
I blame it on people who insist that something other than their own personal responsibility is the cause of it. You are responsible for the information you choose to absorb. There's nothing stopping any of us from checking sources, asking questions, challenging beliefs. If you don't do these things, then that is your choice - but it's also your choice to deprive yourself of knowledge, and you have no one to blame but yourself when you discover that other people might have different opinions based on different information that they've acquired.
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I agree with about 85% of the post. As to the single or 2 persons working in a marriage, I don't think you can just go back in time and say that there were plenty of women working in the 1920s or whenever. Obviously, in centuries ago tribal times, men, women, and children ALL had to work. The way I see it is that around roughly 1980 the US middle class started (for various reasons) to decrease in numbers. Many families realized that to KEEP their former living standard, keep paying their mortgage, and maybe sending a child to college......that they NOW NEEDED 2 salaries.