This is not the America I grew up in. I come from a family of 9, regular parents with 7 children. My father, with only a high school education, had a regular full time job working for the Houston Post. Mom was a stay at home mom, never worked a day in her life that I'm aware of. She did the car pools, PTA, girl scouts with my sisters, cooked and cleaned. Dads 40hr/week, single income took care of all household financial needs, allowing us to live comfortably in a decent neighborhood in the burbs.
DW and I, while raising 3 children, both worked full time to achieve what our parents did with a single income. Daycare was BIG expense for us.
Fast forward to present day. Today we expect both young parents to hold down two full time jobs to achieve the same. What has changed that prevents many young couples from achieving the same lifestyle without working a combined 160hrs/week? It's too easy for us to blame them, but is their lifestyle and unrealistic expectations the root cause? What changed?
