Increasingly, men are realizing exactly that - that having an educated, economically independent partner reduces the pressure on them to be the sole provider. Many men are also beginning to understand that participating in housework and childcare can be rewarding. Women with higher education and/or earnings are so much less likely than other women to divorce, that by age 40, they are more likely to be married than any other group of women.
For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl scrub… - Stephanie Coontz
For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl scrub…
- Stephanie Coontz
Nostalgia wouldn't begin to capture your sense of loss, ... The Way We Really Are Coming to Terms With America's Changing Families. - Stephanie Coontz
Nostalgia wouldn't begin to capture your sense of loss, ... The Way We Really Are Coming to Terms With America's Changing Families.
I think that divorce is a vital escape hatch for people stuck in marriage and it is not a sentence of doom either for adults or children. The communi… - Stephanie Coontz
I think that divorce is a vital escape hatch for people stuck in marriage and it is not a sentence of doom either for adults or children. The communi…
We urgently need a debate about the best ways of supporting families in modern America, without blinders that prevent us from seeing the full extent … - Stephanie Coontz
We urgently need a debate about the best ways of supporting families in modern America, without blinders that prevent us from seeing the full extent …
Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in Americanhistory is 20 perce… - Stephanie Coontz
Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in Americanhistory is 20 perce…
The benefits of feminism have been unequally distributed, because the move toward gender equality and gender neutrality has been countered to a large… - Stephanie Coontz
The benefits of feminism have been unequally distributed, because the move toward gender equality and gender neutrality has been countered to a large…
A two-parent family based on love and commitment can be a wonderful thing, but historically speaking the "two-parent paradigm" has left an extraordin… - Stephanie Coontz
A two-parent family based on love and commitment can be a wonderful thing, but historically speaking the "two-parent paradigm" has left an extraordin…
Singlehood is not longer a state to be overcome as soon as possible. It has its own rewards. Marriage is not the gateway to adulthood anymore. For mo… - Stephanie Coontz
Singlehood is not longer a state to be overcome as soon as possible. It has its own rewards. Marriage is not the gateway to adulthood anymore. For mo…
Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary. - Stephanie Coontz
Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary.
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