The younger women are smart enough to look at the experiences of these women instead of following the rhetoric of the feminists who have destroyed the family unit, made women and children even more vulnerable, and denigrated the very important work that women have traditionally done. May they (collective feminists, not you personally) rot in hell. They have destroyed so many lives.
At least the feminists are self-extinguishing as fewer of them have children; and when they do, it’s often one or (maybe) two. The feminist movement cannot die soon enough.[/quote]
Wow. I don’t know that I am anything that ends in -ist. I guess I’m somewhere between CA Renter and BG. I worked full time until I had kids, was a stay at home mom and now I’m a PT working mom and so far our family unit has not been destroyed. I am probably what would be considered highly educated (MS, JD) but my mind didn’t turn to mush when I was home with the kids and, frankly, I had a lot of fun with them. Sooner than I think, they will be at college and I want to be working when they are, as otherwise I will be bored and will fixate on whatever they are doing. They say I do that already. Live and let live – my favorite moms are the ones who are not sure whether they’ve taken the right path. The ones who are sure they are right always puzzle me.[/quote]
You and I are not far apart at all. I was also on a steep career trajectory and made it to corporate management before dropping back in order to fulfill other needs/desires. I plan to re-enter the workforce in a few years, too , if anyone is willing to hire a middle-aged woman who’s not been in the workforce for just over a decade — one of the main obstacles for women who want to “have it all.”
And you and I are from the ranks of the fortunate few these days, and it’s getting even more difficult for young women today to do what either of us are doing or hope to do. But there is no denying the fact that divorce rates are exceedingly high, and fatherless families/single motherhood is epidemic in many communities.
This is what I’m referring to when I say that feminists have destroyed the family unit and put women and children in an even more vulnerable state. And you know the poverty statistics where single mothers and their children are concerned.
“The rate of single motherhood, which has been steadily increasing since the 1940s, has skyrocketed in recent years, according to a report by the U.S. Census Bureau released on May 1st.
While the birth rate for single women has greatly increased across all demographics — according to the report, which is based on data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, the birth rate for single mothers in 2007 was 80 percent higher than it was in 1980, and 20 percent of that increase happened between 2002 and 2007 — the numbers are particularly high for recent mothers (mothers who gave birth in the previous 12 months) between age 20 and 24.”
