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Edited on Fri Aug-15-08 07:41 AM by SoCalDem
here's why:
Family-supporting wages went away just as the largest generation entered adulthood.. Many women did NOT want to go out and bust their asses and schlep babies & toddlers to daycare, but they had no choice.. Either they got jobs outside the home, or the family did not have enough money to enter (or try to) middle class..
The many children of the boomer parents came from the lifestyle of the era.. Men made enough money to support a family, buy cars, buy houses, take vacations, send the kids to camp, AND to allow their wives to stay home and raise those children..
Modern women, beginning with the boomers had to CHOOSE, so of course they limited their families, thanks to better birth control, and once in the job market, many, if not most, liked the idea of making their own money and charting their own futures.
When a whole generation chooses to limit their families, it's impossible to expect anything different, so for all the freeps and racists who lament the fact that anglos will be the minority, they have no further to look, than in their own family portraits..
Depressed wages and globalization only adds to the fact that poor people from other places WILL come her to do that work, and they WILL form families. Their lifestyles left behind were SO poor, that many will form families where Moms stay home and have many children, even though they may not have much money..they will have more than they had in their country of origin.
When the Europeans were hot to get here, they had no reason NOT to, but with all the advantages that they have now, why on earth would anyone except for the poorest of the poor even try to come her anymore?
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