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  • Dagwood222@lemm.eetoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Olds of lemmy, why does the party who wants everyone to have as many children as possible hate their own children?
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    Here’s a lie that gets repeated all the time. The reason that families today need two incomes is that 1970’s “Women’s Lib” lowered salaries when millions of wives entered the workforce. It’s a giant lie the Right tells to hide what really happened.

    Basically, there were two things that happened about the same time. The Women’s Movement wanted equal pay for women who were already in the workforce. In the 1970s, one income was enough to support an entire family. Then came the Arab Oil boycott. Suddenly the prices of everything skyrocketed, because the price of energy was triple what it had been. All those great loft apartments you see in Manhattan? Those used to be small factories making clothes, toys, and other light industry. They emptied out because the owners couldn’t afford to pay to keep the lights on and young artists moved in to take advantage of the spaces.

    So, you had millions of families that couldn’t afford to keep the house going with just Dad’s salary. Mom had to look for a job, too. Most owmen would have happily stayed home, but they just couldn’t afford to.

    So, fifty years later, the right is blaming the Women’s Movement for inflation caused by the Right’s polices.

    Now to the original point.

    When there was one salary supporting the family, Dad was in charge. He controlled the pocketbook and in many places Mom couldn’t even have a bank account unless he agreed. “A man’s home is his castle.” Meaning the wife and kids are his serfs.

    These days, the wife and kids all have jobs, so Dad is just another cog in the machine, not the great master.