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For those lambasting the parent comment, ignore the phrasing and let us go by stats. Count how many women with successful careers you know that are married to u
by noisy_boy 5y ago
For those lambasting the parent comment, ignore the phrasing and let us go by stats. Count how many women with successful careers you know that are married to unemployed men (to stick to the point the parent makes, let us skip cases where both husband/wife are working). Now do the same count with genders switched. Observe the differential - for the record, it is clear that there are complex reasons behind this difference (children being a big one) but we can't ignore the fact that this choice is much more "socially normal/acceptable" for a woman compared to a married man being unemployed by choice.
- throw737858 5y agoIt is not "socially normal/acceptable" to be single parent, yet 60% of young parents are single. You are both out of reality.
- noisy_boy 5y agoWhat would surprise a person more in today's context in US: hearing that child's parent is divorced/single parent (which by your stats is 60% for young parents, so pretty common) OR hearing about a successful woman with a husband who has chosen to be unemployed? You can keep twisting things but we are talking about what is "typical".
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- rdtwo 5y agoIs that because a married couple is counted as one parental unit and each divorced individual as 1 for a total of 2 therefore making the number high?
- throw737858 5y agoIt was in some article, "58% milenials"