re: When men worked and women took care of the family. Are we better or worse?

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Yes we were better off when one person could make enough money to pay for a family while the other cared for the children. I am not talking highly educated people, a average Joe not qualified to go to college could provide for a family, buy a house and have money and time to take cross country vacations.

Boomers forget that this was NORMAL and they are the ones that essentially changed that.

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There is no question that men and children generally speaking were better off...it may be open to debate if women in general were. I think society in general was better off with one wage earner making enough to cover the nut and one adult looking after the kids...I don't think it has to necessarily be the man working and the woman taking care of the kids.

A big part of the problem was that women were basically property. They accepted that role on the surface for a long time but I doubt many were overly satisfied with the situation beyond its being easier to get from day to day in that role.

Kids going to daycare or coming home to an empty house has not been good for society, in my opinion. Lots of trouble to get into from 3-5 of an afternoon.