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Originally Posted by Prudence
Swell.
So what was the point of that? I'm going to have a miserable marriage and life and because I already have some education under my belt even quitting now to play the happy homemaker won't work and I'll eventually kill myself anyhow?
These sorts of pieces seem to have a "neener neener" playground quality to them.
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Knowledge is power. Too many people blindly enter into marriages without understanding the amount of work that's necessary to maintain them. These kinds of things, when presented right, help reinforce that.
Unfortunately, this one wasn't presented right.
The first thought that came to me was, well, duh it's going to look like it's the result of working women for the simple fact that we're starting from a baseline where it was more common for women to not work. In an equal world, I'd expect the results to show that simple a 2-income household results in more marital problems than a 1-income household, regardless of the gender of the 1 worker. The "woman's fault" slant likely comes from the fact that A) there are more single income families where it's the man who works and B) we're still in a culture where it's the woman in a DINK marriage that, when kids come, gets the brunt of the pressure.
None of this, of course, applies on an individual level. Statistics never do, that's the nature of statistics. A study like this isn't out to prove that there's something wroing with
your marriage. It simply is a way to highlight pitfalls to be aware of, something too many people like to ignore. I just wish the findings could have been presented better.