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Families were stressed back when women followed traditional gender roles, just in a different way.  The truth is that there are no good options.  Families are stressful.  When women played traditional gender roles, they were stressed all the time because they were treated very badly by the majority of husbands (of course, maybe 25% of the husbands were good, but 75% treated their wives and children someplace between their dog and their car).  When women try to have some power in the relationship, by bringing in money and some independence, they have some self respect, but end up working 24/7.  I think it is an impossible problem, and we just have to accept that families will always make at least 50% of the people miserable.[/quote]

There's an interesting premise buried in your paragraph. I totally get the problem with the power disparity -- even if I'm skeptical of your statistics. (Wouldn't really matter if it was only, say, 20% of husbands abusing the power structure). But the idea that self-respect should be tied to bringing in money, rather than other life activities, is troublesome. Making money is often a shallow endeavor, unrewarding in the long term. It's necessary but, in my opinion, overvalued in our society. Our culture's narrow focus on earning and consumption makes our lives shallow and sad. [/quote]

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