Dual-Income Families In The Modern World

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In the modern world it is unreasonable to not have both have both parents working. Most people look to the past, how the male figure in the family was the main source of income. But just as we look to the past we must also leave the ways of the past in the past. In the modern world we need to stop the old tradition of the male being the income source, and change it to allow both parents to help support the family. In the following article we will look at, how the marriage can work, equality, stress, and the children. A big question a lot of men have is, can the marriage still work if we both work? The answer to this question is yes. Wayne Hume once said “To make the marriage work it would be wise to, after work, sit down and talk, with your …show more content…
The wife gets a chance to make some money and support the family, as well as gets to represent the family. On the flip side the husband has to spend more time on responsibilities around the house “fathers may assume more responsibility for childcare and housework than has traditionally been the case.”(Alice Drinkworth) . Over the last few years the rate of dual-income families has gone up “In 1961, only 20% of all two parent families were dual wage families, but by 1986, more than half (53%) of all families were dual earning families.”. (Novelguide) With both parents working there will be an increased income for the family “On the positive side, the family has an increased income and thus fewer financial stresses”(Working Parents). Dual-income families tend to be less stressed because bills will be easier to manage with the two sources of income as well as, the male figure in the family won 't have to work as hard to support the family verses if it was just one source of …show more content…
This can be a bad thing not only for the marriage but the kids as well, because they will emulate what they see or happens around them. “Middle-class boys tend to do worse in school when their mothers worked... as well, boys whose mothers work tend to have strained relationships with their fathers due to their perceptive devaluation of their father 's worth as an adequate breadwinner”(Novelguide). When the mother works the middle-class boys see their Dads as less of a man, because he isn 't supporting the family.The high levels of stress, and always being tired will make it hard to interact with a

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