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Women want the ability to choose to be mothers, and if they do they want the support of both their partner and society to make sure they can do so without having to sacrifice being a good mother and/or a career.
Kind of weak. My mom was single mom and did both. No reason why a woman with a husband that is not trash couldn’t help her achieve her goals. I know so many working single mother’s growing up. And who are these woman marrying that can afford to care for them? What standard of living could that be for your child?
They want to be able to have babies without needing to sacrifice like your mother did. That’s the opposite of weak that’s them stating their minimum demands and expecting men and society to meet them.
Nothing in life is without sacrifice.
What trad wives are sacrificing is their ability to be independent from a man. My mom went through husbands and thank god she had the freedom to do it.
My dad is a pos, brothers dad also pos, sister dad believe it or not pos, 4th husband way too young for her. 5th husband seems to be working out. If she didnt have a job which ones would we have been stuck with with no other male to support her because she cant support herself. No I consider this heavily shortsighted and weak. If anything it only applies to woman with good families that can support them.
And what did she really sacrifice by working? As far as im concerned nothing. Not like kids go to school during the day. Was she exhausted after work? Yeah but so is any adult.
