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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 3 year old is in preschool from 9-5pm five days a week.  I don't kid myself about who DC is spending the majority of their waking hours with.

Back when SAHMs were the norm, people would say the dad works while the mom raised the kids. Ok, so now that mom is working, who do you think is raising the kids?  It's not to say that the parental contribution is insignificant, but let's be real.[/quote]

lol SAHM has never been the norm [/quote]

are you high?[/quote]
DP. No...she's just not delusional enough to think that rich, white women were ever the norm in the US.[/quote]

Ok, so you're just willingly stupid. [b]The percentage of women in the labor force didn't reach 50% until 1978.  That would mean the majority of women were not working until 1978.  SAHMs absolutely were the norm.  [/b]FFS.  Female empowerment doesn't mean rewriting history to align with your narrative.[/quote]

Thank you. It’s often repeated on this board that only rich white women stayed at home.

Logically this doesn’t make sense. Birth control wasn’t even invented, women were often expected to quit working when they became pregnant, daycares weren’t a thing and most families only had one car.  Dual earners were NOT common. Census data supports this.  [/quote]

I know this would take some logical reasoning skills that you lack but "working in the labor force" and working are 2 different things. You think the farm ran itself? Who was responsible for the cow and the chickens and other jobs. While it's true they did not have a dual income we know that women's work has not been documented as real work for centuries.

You think moms during the 30's were home with kids reading and writing? come on man![/quote]

I’m confused.  Is being home taking care of the kids not real work in your mind?  You are correct that “women’s work” hasn’t counted as “real work” for centuries, but you seem to be fine with it.[/quote]

They were not “home” caring for kids. [/quote]

They didn’t live on their family farms?  It wasn’t home?  Their kids weren’t there being taken care of?  And again, do you think taking care of kids is not “real work”?  Or is it only when you’re taking care of your OWN kids that it doesn’t count?[/quote]

Your misreading. The farm is acres and acres and they are out working all day ... the kids are not by their side or even anywhere to be seen they are not in the home with the kids... you know there was very little "caring for kids" until the 50's. Once mom had to go back to tending to things kids were on their own.

Women would go clean houses and just leave their kids home with older siblings or alone, there was no had to be 8 law. That is not counted in the labor statistics that was quoted. None of that was considered "labor force" in the statistics that are quoted.

Most women were working, not staying home with children.[/quote]

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