Very true. And the first thing most women object to about being a traditional wife is having kids.
Yeah, not to mention it's such a bitch vacuuming, shoving the clothes in the washer/dryer, and feeding the dishwasher after 'nuking' dinner.
Contrast that with making dinner 'from scratch' (especially the plucking/butchering the chicken part), a washboard, tub, and line, dishes by hand, a broom and dustrag, ..all those skills enshrined in Carla Emery's book or trickled through the pages of Mother Earth News or various survivalist/homesteading off grid manuals.
Looking back at gasoline powered top loader washers with hand cranked wringer rollers as a great advancement and labor saver, having killed, dressed, skinned/plucked, and prepared my own dinner and having 'lived lean', I'm not saying those technological advancements aren't wonderful time and labor savers, just wondering why the additional time is not valued so much to spend with nurturing and teaching children everything from a solid moral footing to arithmetic, reading, literature, simple skills, and so much more.
Heating a home with the push of a button is so much easier than splitting wood and feeding the stove(s) and fireplaces.
Women abdicated their thrones, being the queen of their house, whose children and husband were the jewels in their crown, even if their lives were not necessarily glamorous, and left for empty promises and farmed out the kids. It wasn't that they could not have businesses, nor work outside the home, but past critical economic mass, that second paycheck became less disposable income and more a necessity just to survive. The accompanying social movements were no coincidence, as there was a growing statist movement in the shadows that wanted control of the children from cradle to grave, and it was easier to draw off the mothers with promises of prestige and wealth than forcibly take their children and invoke the instinctive ire of Mama Bear.
For those who did not, who stayed and placed their family before themselves and worked hard to provide a nurturing environment and support to their children and husbands, I salute you! For those who did both, held that job and provided in traditional roles the support and nurturing a family needs to thrive, I am humbly in awe.
