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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Americans are soft.

My great grandfather worked 7:00 am - 6:00 pm M-F and 7:00 am - 12:00 noon on Saturdays. Saturday afternoon and Sunday all day he was off.

His schedule was common for city workers.

This was in the early 1900's.[/quote]

So when was he raising his kids? Parenting isn’t confined to only Saturday afternoons and Sundays?[/quote]

Pretty sure his wife was raising the kids and cooking and cleaning and keeping the house. My great-grandfather was a construction manager and was up at dawn to drive to the sites and didn't get home till after six five days a week plus half days Saturday. His wife managed the house and cooked and cleaned and did the marketing and raised the four kids. From what my mother remembered, the only moment of "leisure" she had was sitting on the porch shelling peas for dinner or her church activities. Other than that she was on her feet all day long doing chores. They were a smack dab in the middle middle class family of the early to mid 20th century.

The thing about this traditional model of working father and homemaker mother is that actually does work well because each side is seen as contributing something towards the family's existence. [/quote]

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