Weekend Economists Clean Out Davy Jones' Locker, March 2-4, 2012

[Tansy_Gold]

54. And those who live together without benefit (?) of marriage have their reasons,

most of which coincide with everything you wrote.

Women of the immediate post-war baby boom who were children raised in the Ozzie & Harriet family model then had to transition through the 60s & 70s chaos of a sexual revolution in part fueled by The Pill and a wilderness of no-fault divorce in which most men were much more financially secure. Regardless what the rightwing pundits may say, I don't think most young women today have any desire to endure what their mothers and grandmothers did. Far too many of us are the damaged ones who somehow managed to survive, and we won't be going back into that kind of bondage ever again, and we'll do whatever we can to make sure our daughters and granddaughters -- our sons and grandsons, too! -- never have to go through it either.



TG, who knows whereof you speak, sister.