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When you say that there was a time that a family lived on a single 40-hour workweek... are you including housework and child-raising, or just paid work?
by greglindahl 10y ago
When you say that there was a time that a family lived on a single 40-hour workweek... are you including housework and child-raising, or just paid work?
- Pxtl 10y agoOf course just paid work. But also the amount of manpower needed to raise children has gone up as our expectations for supervision have increased. Letting a 7 year old walk themselves to school is no longer okay, for example.
- edraferi 10y ago> Letting a 7 year old walk themselves to school is no longer okay, for example. This is the worst. Kids need to accrue independent skills early or you wind up with pathetically helpless college students. Self-sufficient kids is the whole point of parenting.
- lordCarbonFiber 9y agoIn the US at least, there are very few places where a 7 year old could walk to school. The town I grew up in the elementary school was ~20 minutes away by car for example. "Kids these days" as a whole tend to be more self sufficient (as a result of more dual working households etc); not less.
- adiabatty 10y ago> Letting a 7 year old walk themselves to school is no longer okay, for example. Why not? What's changed?
- flukus 10y agoAs the world got safer it somehow got more scary.
- grkvlt 10y agoMaybe, but in general in the West it isn't a problem to let a 7 year old walk to school on their own. In fact, the few cases where someone makes an issue out of it are so rare they actually make national or even international news!