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In reply to the discussion: Where do you stand on homeschooling? [View all]whathehell
(30,443 posts)It's mostly women who do this, and most working women are
working because one paycheck will not cut it for most families anymore, unfortunately.
I was raised in a blue collar family in the fities/sixties where my mother, married
to a union tradesman, could actually afford to be a "stay at home mom".
Those days, which rethugs like to point out as the "good old family values days",
were also, though they'd rather you not notice, the days when unions were strong
and paid LIVING wages....I am happy that my sister and I "caught a break" by
being born at the "right" time in America, and feel angry and betrayed for those others
at the how it's been going WAY downhill ever since...When Hillary Clinton said
that a second term of Dubya would result in our "not recognizing this country", she spoke
for many of us, although in truth, it has been going down since Reagan.