Trad wife movement vs working wives

[chrysostom]

On 3/12/2025 at 8:07 PM, Hna.Caridad said:

Personally, I find it ironic that these so-called "trad-wives" are raking in cash hand-over-fist by going on social media

I agree that making your own home life into a type of reality show for influence, likes, and money is in fact at odds with the ideals that traditional homemaking represents. It is not surprising that people find this hypocritical - social media tends to rot everything it touches!

Yet the ideals themselves remain, and would remain even if it were not fashionable.

[little2add]

Trad wife movement vs working wives?

BTW: the notion that a traditional wife doesn't work is preposterous.  Just because she doesn't bring home a paycheck does it mean that she's sitting on the couch all day eating bonbons. 

The so-called tradwife life, is a lot harder to do than going to the office for eight hours.  Hard but very rewarding, you get to raise your children instead of a stranger raising your children! , for instance.  

The idea that stay at home mom doesn't work is insulting and nonsense.

a tradwife life was once the norm, and if you ask me was much more civilized than today's lifestyle - choices...

Edited March 18 by little2add

[Norseman82]

On 3/15/2025 at 8:09 PM, Anastasia13 said:

If you marry expecting to separate, you should not get married.

There is a difference between "expecting to separate" versus protecting yourself in case one's spouse is no longer around.  A spouse can die or become disabled or be an innocent victim of a separation.  What then?  

[little2add]

On 3/24/2025 at 9:09 PM, Norseman82 said:

A spouse can die

Till death do us part, is really only a half truth!   BTW

 

 

[Anastasia13]

On 3/25/2025 at 6:39 AM, Norseman82 said:

There is a difference between "expecting to separate" versus protecting yourself in case one's spouse is no longer around.  A spouse can die or become disabled or be an innocent victim of a separation.  What then?  

That’s exactly my thinking. I see this trend with these women who will be totally unprepared if that happens. The only thing they have going for them is their social media and hopefully life insurance.

[little2add]

3 hours ago, Anastasia13 said:

That’s exactly my thinking. I see this trend with these women who will be totally unprepared if that happens. The only thing they have going for them is their social media and hopefully life insurance.

Hence, the importance of the sacrament of holy matrimony.  

[Anastasia13]

3 hours ago, little2add said:

Hence, the importance of the sacrament of holy matrimony.  

I don’t understand. What does saying this have to do either with them being prepared if they become widows?

[little2add]

22 hours ago, Anastasia13 said:

I don’t understand. What does saying this have to do either with them being prepared if they become widows?

Is it possible that the quality of life has diminished over the last 50 years because of the decline in religious principles, particularly the importance of holy matrimony.

after all, Approximately 40% of all births in the U.S. in 2020 were to unmarried women.  The percentage of children born out of wedlock in 1960 was approximately 5%.

Is this a statistic anomaly or something else?