oddity wrote:I will say though, that that's not always an option. But, for a society that wants to grow(IE:children), 1 homemaker 1 earner is the smallest efficient group for raising healthy emotionally stable and viable families.
The problem is this is the kind of statement that is simply not supported by evidence. Yes, a stay-at-home parent gives some advantages to a child. Two working parents also gives advantages to a child. There have been multiple studies looking at the children of stay-at-home vs. working parents, and there is no viable statistical difference whatsoever between academic performance, behavioral issues, health, or general success in any way. This is the kind of thing that has been looked at repeatedly, and it's simply not true that a stay-at-home parent leads to more healthy and emotionally stable children. A child needs excellent care and stability. It can get that from a parent or a relative or a paid daycare provider of some sort.
I'm relatively certain that the studies you are referencing, make no distinction between those children who's stay at home parent is one of a functional earner/caregiver pair and those children who stay home with a parent that has no corresponding working counterpart. If you lump the children of both these groups and their wildly different outcomes in the same system and compare that to 2 working parents system, I'm sure that the comparison is not as unflattering as it could be.
For now, I'll agree to disagree with ya MMD. We can take it outside if you want to continue that facet of the discussion. But it's really a derail and that's my fault.
There's a lot of territory to explore in this topic but for now I offer one thought:
1) if herbivore men seek more "meaningful" or "non-sexual" relationships with women, what is the response from the women who interact with them? The western commentary under that Jezebel article was rather distasteful and condescending. If we assume strict hierarchical gender roles exist, then Japanese women should theoretically be baffled by the herbivore movement. This lends some credence to an earlier post about the surprise of Japanese girls to the thought of having male friends.
Suddenly, I'm reminded of "The Sexodus" articles Breitbart was running a week or two ago.
That reminder would probably be because on some level, the Herbivore movement appears to be in some ways analogous to the "The Beautiful Ones" from the study (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Calhoun) that was referenced in one of the Sexodus articles.
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