I lost my job after almost 30 years when the production facility moved out of the State. Could have lost our house. It really sucks, especially not having anything to do after a spent my days, for 30 years, in constant motion and sometimes walking 20 to 25 miles per day. It was a clean job, though, blue collar, but the factory was food processing and clean in that way. Men and women working together, it was a Union job. So, if you could qualify to do the work, you got the position or we would step in with a Grievance form.

One couple, my Dad's friends, both had good paying jobs and based their mortgage on both incomes. One of them lost their job and then they lost their house. That really sucked.

I never experienced the culture that your Dad seems to have emulated. Maybe he missed the era of Rosie the Riveter, and I'm sorry your perspective has been tainted darkly by that environment.

The Bible era culture seems to have had both men and women industrially hard at work. Life seems to have been a bit more difficult than our rather cushy lifestyles today. The only thing relative I can think about (and it is an issue of Corporate think today) is the division of labor, way back when, was influenced greatly by the act of having and tending to children. It interrupted, for example, fulfilling contracts of stone masonry, which could not wait for months. and men were the principle artisans in those days. No morality options.

Today, some liberal Politicians and many Labor Unions recognize the need for child care so women can follow their careers. However, you might think some people and especially for you, some Christians in particular are living in the past. Do you really think different culture should be condemned for their different approaches to social structure??

I think you are smarter than that.

By the way, I think we all need a whole lot more of sympathetic minds to assuage all the dissentions and hard feelings..