tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823719196374898491.post734744074798725722..comments2023-12-19T07:29:42.437-06:00Comments on Dedicated Tenther: On RebrandingDedicated Tentherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02169003228002700000noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-823719196374898491.post-5377326124171598632013-03-19T13:05:57.544-05:002013-03-19T13:05:57.544-05:00I'm not sure that holds up. A very similar thi...<i>I'm not sure that holds up. A very similar thing happened in WWI, including women in the workforce. Why not assume it started then?"</i><br /><br /> The 1920s were actually rather sexually promiscuous if I recall properly, and many saw the 1930s as the wages of the sins of the 1920s, so it sort of did. <br /><br /><i>Women entered the workforce in the Civil War (while the men were largely off fighting and dying), why not then?</i><br /><br /><br />It's emergence is not the product of any single vector component but is rather an amalgamation of many contributing forces. I think times were harder after the civil war, and religious doctrine was far more popular. <br /><br /><br /><i>I grant you that it is the societal changes, but I think those were on the way anyway. WWII may have been what allowed them to start gathering some steam, but it might not, too.</i><br /><br /><br />It was not JUST World War II. World War II was the initiator, but prior history (such as the 20s) and other developments (Anti-Biotics and Birth Control Pills) had contributory and reinforcing effects. Add to that studies by "experts" such as Alford Kinsey alleging that promiscuity and adultery are the norm, and you have further reinforcement for sexual libertine behavior. Also, a major factor was LBJ's war on poverty and how it made men unnecessary, or in fact, detrimental. <br /><br /><br /><i>However, there is nothing intrinsically bad for marriage for the woman to work outside the home. It happened in other cultures for millennia, and the idea of Marriage between one man and one woman didn't suffer terribly. Heck, Lydia (in the Bible) was the head of her own household.</i><br /><br /><br />I wasn't suggesting that it was bad for women to work out of the home. I was just pointing out that during World War II there was a mass exodus from the homes by women, and thereafter a long standing realization by many of them that there was an alternative to being a housewife. That the alternative often didn't end well was not apparent in their youth. <br /><br /><br /><i>OTOH, No Fault Divorce gave State Approval to destroy any instance of that tradition/institution "just because." Once that happened, the Government really ceded any right to control what marriage means. </i><br /><br /><br />I do not dispute that it is a contributing factor, I only suggest that it isn't the only one, or even the most significant one. The bigger factors arrived much earlier in history. No fault divorce is more like an effect, rather than a cause. DiogenesLampnoreply@blogger.com