SC
2 min readMay 27, 2024

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I don't agree it's a horrible statistic about single mothers.

Also, it's 70% of women file, not 75%. And that just means they're the ones who handles the paperwork, the labor. It speaks nothing about who blew up the marriage or why it failed.

You ignore that a high percentage of women who "choose" a TradWife lifestyle do so because they were raised in deeply conservative or fundamentalist religions where they were isolated from ever knowing about any other way. Or, it was portrayed as being sinful or even demonic.

You're also not recognizing a distinction between traditional wife and motherhood roles and religious Tradawife life, which is all about submission to the husband and not earning any income or providing for the family in any meaningful way.

My grandmother's were both traditional wives and mothers. But they also both worked the land, raising crops and livestock so they both provided the bulk of the family's food. One did at least galf the building of the house, dug the well which provided the water, and sold farm goods from the excess. She was a nurse before she married. The other was a skilled seamstress who kept the family clothed and made some income on the side doing that and she raised dogs and geese on the side. She had a difficult pregnancy and delivery that nearly killed her and she never fully recovered from so she was in poor health after her second child and they were advised not to try to have any more. She's still see to that food though, if nothing else. She made sure the family could eat no matter what.

So there's a world of difference between being a stay at home mom who's focusing on the children and the home while they're young, providing how you can or plugging the gaps, so to speak, and this lazy girl lifestyle TradWife influencers are trying to sell where you lay up at home making bread once in a while, going through endless "self care" routines to keep yourself pretty, pop out babies that you then treat like accessories, and 'submit' to any pettiness or whim from your husband just so you don't have to grow up and be responsible.

Come on. These chicks are next level crazy. They're the girl version of DudeBros or Alpha Bros, looking to exploit the other gender so they have an easy life and don't have to fucking adult. Listen to them when they're blathering on about all their "resting in their femininity" bullshit and how hubby can always go get a second job or how it always comes down to large salaries. Not financing a decent life and yhen being content. Large, ever growing salaries. Tell me I'm wrong.

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