Women left home and got their rights and joined the workplace in full force. And that, made everything go to hell. Men used to command salaries which could support the entire family. With women joining the workforce and possibly doubling the number of qualified applicants over a short period of time, wages went down and when you combine that with the other issues such as immigration and illegals hopping the fence from Mexico, you have both parents in the family working, sometimes each having more than one job and still not making ends meet easily.
Thats not the only downside of women finally gaining equal rights. Family and society has suffered in so many ways because there's no longer anyone home full-time making a home ...A HOME. Children no longer have as strong of an ethical and moral base because the person who's supposed to be there guiding them into adulthood is busy finishing that report that's due in the morning or both parents are just too tired after a long day and so the family needs to go eat out at KFC instead of a home cooked meal.
No one to decorate and enhance the home
No one to prepare healthy meals on a regular basis
No one to host dinner parties and social affairs so that people spend more time together instead of in front of a computer or Xbox.
No one to focus on the needs of their children full time.
No one to take full time interest in improving the neighborhood and community in which they live and making it a better place.
I could probably go on and make a list with more than a hundred items but I think the point is made, the quality of life of everyone has suffered and the quality of human beings our children are raised to become has suffered tremendously. Creating a happy, well adjusted society full of people is a full-time job, one that simply cannot be micro-managed and multi-tasked. All thanks to women departing from their 1950's values and joining the workplace.
If we're ever going to heal as a people and as a society, we need focus more on family and friends. We need to get people back out of the workplace and back home to make life better for everyone. We should examine some of our societal habits and decide as individuals if they are really best for us, or if we're doing it because of some preconceived notion. Do we really need to leave home at age 18? Do grandparents or an aunt or uncle need to live apart or have their own residence? When possible couldn't extended family live together not only to save money, but to live together in a place that offers a true home for everyone.
Which is really better, if when possible, should a 21 year old, that 21 year old's middle aged parents, and one set of grandparents all live apart or would it be better if everyone pooled their income for a very modest sized house where everyone had ample space for their own living, yet still under the same roof so you had a much stronger support system? Which would you rather have? A one bedroom apartment by yourself or a spacious bedroom in a large 6 bedroom house? I wonder if those who would pick being alone is a result of the society we live in? Do we really want to live completely alone like that or would we be happier if we could live together so long as the others gave us the space and respect we all need to live our own lives?
With all thats happened in the last thirty years, from the 1980s until now I think we really need to make the transition from feminism to humanism. With sleep and work encompassing 2/3rds of our lives, I believe we need to start in the workplace to affect real change in healing our society and becoming the Americans we really want to be.
The first thing we need to change is our education system. You should graduate high school with a general study bachelors or associates degree. It used to be that you could graduate high school and make an decent living without college. Today you can't. The state needs to support education for every individual until they have marketable job skills. Now I'm talking about a complete radical change in education as well know it, do it feasible. Accelerate classes so that you actually finish high school around 15 or 16 then extended high school by two years and everyone completes general college classes from 16-20, where you still attend a "college college" for the specialties that colleges offer.
Next is the workplace, many couples who marry have similar levels of education and experience, job sharing could be an answer for some couples. Working from home. Establishing manor regulations that give tax breaks for families that cohabitate under the same roof. In some jobs, providing living quarters for familys on the job site. There are a lot of practical and common sense alternatives which we could provide that would help restore one person in the home at all times. Individuals could chose who would be the homemaker or alternate that position if they prefered. Laws could be made protecting a home, preserving it for the eldest child or who they appoint so that when a home is built, they are built as castles to stand the test of time and be there for generations.
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