And as others have said, today's society has too many financial requirements and distractions to make it easy to "live traditionally". People don't seem willing to give up their economic freedom/toys, either.
So it’s bullshit.
After reading through the questions and underlying answers, here’s what was presented:
[1]- Trophy wife, Rich partner, no job [2]- Single, Famous, independent (children ambiguous) [3]- Happily married, kids, ‘normal’ job. [4]- Relationship, Travel, creative career, no kids.
Percentages were: 14%,23%,46%, 16%.
https://edubirdie.com/blog/heart-or-hustle-gen-z-women-on-lo...
Somehow ‘tradwife’ in this scenario is anything that doesn’t fit into the three other buckets.
- Trophy wife, Rich partner, job.
- Married, Famous, independent (children ambiguous)
- No, Relationship, Travel, creative career, kids.
- Normal job, married, "trad husband"
and I suppose there are others and "Trad" wife would cover "Happily married, kids, ‘no’ job.". I also suppose "Trad" implies a "leave it to Beaver mother " sort of lifestyle, always homemaking watching kids. Not out doing stuff.
How many other categories could be thought up.
Being a mother and raising good kids is an invaluable role in society, and a generation of women were brainwashed to see it as a form of oppression. I don’t know what could be more empowering than bringing life into the world, or more rewarding than watching child grow up. What career is going to give that level of satisfaction?
As an immigrant in Sweden, I love that I had so much paid parental leave to be with my babies.
In the US, where I used to live, parental leave is a joke. There are generations of people brainwashed to believe fathers aren't involved in taking children to the park, changing diapers, and so on, and brainwashed to think that seeing single men in children's spaces is abnormal and suspicious.
I don't see what can be more empowering than letting both parents have time with the new life they brought into the world, and working together to watch the child grow up.
What career is going to give that level of satisfaction to men?
After the Butlerian Jihad, my backup plan is to work at the preschool.
My sister thought to be a stay-at-home mother until the kids started kindergarten, then changed her mind after a few years as she found it so frustrating and tedious. My wife and I looked forward to when our kids started preschool, so I could do work and she could take classes. Neither of us are defined by having kids.
There's a reason Valium was "Mother’s Little Helper" in the trad-wife home of the 1960s!
Is that really the biggest reason why people are having less kids? Or is it more the idea that these days you two good incomes live in a world with a rising cost of living? Most women I know either have or want kids. And it's really the financial situation that influences these decisions the most.
nacozarina•3h ago