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God forbid people have a traditional nuclear family where the mother raises and nurtures the children into competent adults.

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And then who pays the mortgage that now requires 2 incomes?

We are not building a society, we're building some kind of mass labor camp.

Which means eventually we're going to get a prison riot because people are tired of the conditions.

Not all mortgages require two incomes. Ones that do are evidence of the mortgagees getting out over their skis.

Maybe for the white collar worker, for now, but what about the blue collar?

The median household income is 80k.

You're moving the goalposts. A child's own mother will always provide cheaper and higher quality childcare than a disinterested third party, regardless of the sorry state of our economy.

Cheaper is very much not true if you value time. Devoting the entire workday of an adult to 1-3 children is a huge cost, much more expensive than having one adult handle 6-10 children.

And "higher quality" isn't guaranteed at all. Even with daycare the children are with their parents most of the time, and meeting up with other kids and a trained caregiver during weekdays has a lot of good effects.

God forbid men abandoned their families (children, wives) for selfish reasons. But they still do. It is not cool to be a single mother without a career, because you wanted women to be housewives by profession.

Take a tour in Afganistan. I heard they just enacted a law for beating housewives. https://htnworld.com/taliban-afghanistan-domestic-violence-l...

Those are mental gymnastics to justify extinction. There is nothing mysoginistic about the human reproductive and child rearing process that every generation of humans has followed from the dawn of our species up until about 20 years ago.

No mysoginism, just a bunch of women telling their daughters/granddaughters their regrets.

What daughters or granddaughters if they're never born?

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