Caldwell and McAtee on How We Got Where We Are At In Terms Of Family

“Feminism offered corporations an excuse (what the political philosopher Nancy Fraser called a “legitimation”) for breaking the implicit contract to pay any full-time worker a wage he could raise a family on. It was feminism that provided, under pressure of the recessions of the 1970s, a pretext for re-purposing household and national budgets. Instead of being used for reproduction (understood as both family-forming and investment), those budgets would now be consumed. The increment in the family wage that had been meant for the raising of children was withdrawn. Families were no longer entitled to it—mothers would have to enter the workplace to claim it. But they wound up getting only a small part of it, and their competition drove down their husbands’ wages into the bargain.”

Christopher Caldwell
The Age of Entitlement

1.) Put women in the work force
2.) Larger labor pool leads to
3.) Reduced wages for men which
4.) Creates necessity of double income homes which
5.) Creates DINKS (Double Income No Kids)
6.) Where there are children they are put in day care
7.) Children thus do not form normal family bonds
8.) Men and women apart in the workforce fosters adultery as men bond to women who are helpers in their workplace and women bond to men they are helpmeets to at the workplace.
9.) Thus increasing divorce rates
10.) Thus creating more consumption and less saving as income must now support two households. One household by way of alimony and child support a second household as men remarry.
11.) Thus creating broken dysfunctional people and families
12.) Rinse and repeat.

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