According to a new poll, Millennials are warming to traditional parenting roles, single income households provided by a male breadwinner, and stay-at-home moms.
Nearly 50 percent of men ages 18-25 believe it better for “everyone involved if the man is the achiever outside the home and the woman takes care of the home and family.” A similar survey of high school seniors in 2014 revealed that 58 percent “agreed that the best family was one where the man was the main income earner and the woman took care of the home.”
The article this is a consequence of a generation raised in day care, coming home to an empty house and a mom stressed out from work and saying, “F That.”
Makes sense to me.
It should make the transition to an economy where half of jobs are lost to automation a little easier, tho’.
Makes sense to me, too.
Liberals believe it is the untried that is the better choice.
Conservatives believe that the untried is more likely to be a worse choice, simply because it is quite likely to have been tried in the past and failed.
There are REASONS why traditions exist. It behooves us to find out the reasons behind those traditions before we start departing from them.
Also agree. But wonder how many Millennial men have better job prospects than women.
Today two thirds of college students are women and one third men — a complete reversal from my college days in the 70s. Elementary schools are openly hostile to any boy who doesn’t act like a good little girl — which has led to a huge (yuge?) numbers of them dropping out as soon as they can.
I feae that a lot of them will be the ones staying home with the kids while the wife puts food on the table.
Imagine that. As our demographics go to pot, these folks contemplate the traditional family. With home schooling and a dynamic, family oriented church, we might even put a stake through moral relativism and situation ethics. We may be seeing the generation which is thoughtful about moderation.
Ken49, not necessarily. There are a lot of well paying trades out there that you don’t need a college degree for:
Welder
Auto Mechanic
Computer repair
Plumber
Electrician
In fact, if businesses looked at the actual requirements of the job, they would find that a lot of their entry positions do not require a 4 year degree:
Programming coder
Web design
Being just two.
people need to look at the research on the behavioral problems of children raised in day care centers vis a vis kids raised at home by their mothers.
What do you think the future will be for gays 20-30 years from now?
pawfurbehr: I’d say positive. More and more churches are following the Mainline in adopting pro-gay doctrines. In fact, the percentage of evangelicals who affirm homosexuality in general and/or support same-sex marriage goes up every few years.
It already has majority support in the conservative Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, for example. It has plurality support in the VERY conservative Presbyterian Church in America. And support in the Southern Baptist Church and Church of the Nazarene climbs every time the parishoners are polled.
The only problem is the denominational leadership.
The first challenge would be to get two parents that stay in the marriage to realize the full benefits for the family.
With more men in the workforce then business owners wouldn’t have to hire even more men at a hire rate to do the jobs women can’t do.
“In fact, if businesses looked at the actual requirements of the job, they would find that a lot of their entry positions do not require a 4 year degree:
Programming coder
Web design
Being just two.”
Totally agree. I have the BS degree in “Computer Science” (1980), and there was nothing about it that couldn’t have been taught in high school (*) or learned on the job. Moreover, most of what I have done since 1995 or so *was* learned on the job.
(*) If we’d had computers a century earlier, these things *would* have been taught in high school or even earlier.