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Delt Alum, you have said so much and I agree with your entire post.
Another factor is women working. Today it seems like a two family income is "required". Why is that? Is it so we can all have a nice home and fill it with "stuff"? I'm reminded of a commedy routine George Carlin performed talking about how first, we needed a house to store our stuff in and as we kept on collecting "stuff", we needed a purse to put it in, a nightstand to put it on.... Or, has our economy gotten to the point where the "Mom" has to go out and work to meet basic needs. A real catch 22 to my thinking.
Growing up, my Mom had jobs from time to time and it was to make ends meet. We were not poverty level, but by today standards, we probably would have been considered "poor".
I never knew it though. I thought, because we lived in a "huge" farm house, had horses and good neighbors, we were rich.
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