> In previous generations, you had the "breadwinner" and "homemaker" - two clearly defined roles that fulfilled real needs. This is a false nostalgia. For most

> In previous generations, you had the "breadwinner" and "homemaker" - two clearly defined roles that fulfilled real needs. This is a false nostalgia. For most of human history men and women did equal amounts of labor. A non-working wife was a status symbol of urban society. > When both partners are working, who is taking care of the kids? Who is cleaning? Who is meal planning, shopping, cooking, and doing laundry? If we really want to go back to "previous generations" this was almost entirely done by grandparents or extended family. The idea of a nuclear family household is almost an entirely modern invention. Expectations that a single income was to support an entire household was solely belonged to the post-war baby-boom - before that even children were expected to work! I'm not saying there is not merit to a single-income household or some people shouldn't enjoy it. But I object to any framing of it as "traditional". If anything, part of our problem with our current housing market is that in the last 100 years we have mostly obliterated multi-family/multi-generational households from cultural acceptance.