Northwestern Pennsylvania. Rust belt, Great Lakes region. Anecdotally, more than half of my peers had both parents working. My mother and both grandmothers had

Northwestern Pennsylvania. Rust belt, Great Lakes region. Anecdotally, more than half of my peers had both parents working. My mother and both grandmothers had jobs. The attitude was that two incomes are better than one in an age of economic uncertainty - an era that kicked in no later than the 70s.