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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
I stopped watching television a while ago; are there many positive fictional representations of fathers in mass media? I've read that this is a bit of a problem. What do you think?
Traditional gender roles are a thing of the past. Society has changed, and we have to deal with it. Stay-at-home mom? A rare luxury. Stay-at-home dad? A freak occurrence. We are being squeezed to a point that makes the stereotypical middle-class '50s family look like a fantasy that never happened. Did it happen? In my own situation, if we ever have children, I think I'll be doing much of the childcare because I'm the one who can realistically work from home. It may seem counterintuitive if you consider evolutionary roles we come from (hunter vs. gatherer), but maybe this is what Darwin meant by the survival of the fittest. You either adapt, or you don't raise a family. It's up to you.
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My wife stays home and I work 8-5.
A stay at home mom is not a luxury, a working mom in a two income family is the luxury. Most people are unwilling to live their grandparents life style that allowed them the 50's family in the first place.
One car, kids work summer jobs every summer, home canning, very few trips to restaurants, TV as a luxury, small homes. Monthy cell phones, cable, internet, car payments etc all add up. A while ago we had someone post a whine about today vrs the 60's and if you took out all the optional stuff with a working mom the numbers were almost the same.
I work in an area that was a huge early 1950's post war subburb in Chicago. No young family would think of living in a homes that small, but 50 years ago it WAS the american dream.
Few are being squeezed through no fault of their own they are jumping into the juicer with both feet and a blindfold on.