[Mayzie]

You can’t survive or support a family with a single income these days.. It’s required for both partners to work.

[jollofricepeas]

Exactly.

Manufacturing jobs used to exist.

Manufacturing jobs used to exist in high numbers.

Manufacturing jobs that didn’t require a high school education existed in high numbers.

Manufacturing jobs that paid well and provided a pension and didn’t require high education existed in high numbers.

[bequanna]

You absolutely can. Our family does and many of my friends do. They aren’t all wealthy people.

It isn’t always a choice, but often it is. Many people can live on one income but choose a lifestyle that requires two.

[2devnull]

Do you live in an area with high international demand for housing?

Not all of the US is a hot spot for high paid immigrants, yet. Displacement is a real thing. Not everyone can change states or nations to make the finances work out.

[pleoxy]

Been doing it for more than 15 years.

Where there is a will, there is a way.

[pylua]

You certainly can, but going by the numbers most people can’t.

[liquidpele]

To be fair, this is mostly a consequence of women entering the workforce. Not that that’s bad, but it’s an unintended consequence that companies were then able to convince workers to work for less because people could survive on it still.

[actionfromafar]

Yeah see I think that’s part of the wealth being sucked into the 0.1%

[foogazi]

This assumes they competed for the same jobs, is that true ?

Why didn’t women entering the workforce lead to growth and more jobs being created ?

[otteromkram]

"To be fair..."

If you leave this out of your response, do you believe that you're still conveying the same message?

I do.

[bryanlarsen]

That's an argument that should be increasing the number of dual parent households. If a family could be supported on a single income, then abandoning your family would have fewer consequences and thus seemingly more likely.

[pixl97]

No, what you would expect to see is a drastic decrease number in the number of children born. People are choosing not to have families at all.

In late 1960 we peaked with somewhere around 47% of households having children. It is now around 26%

In 1990 the number of married couples in the US started to flatline even though the population is up 40% since then.

[AmericanChopper]

A substantial reason for that is cultural change though. You can’t close to double the supply of something without expecting the price to go down (probably by something close to half).