Undoubtedly EEOC and other cultural changes (farmers moving to cities, increased industrialization, and the information technology transitions of the workplace and its expectations) in our lifetime were accomplished at the expense of previously established social systems. Social systems that denied women and minorities equal opportunity in the workplace and in their lives..... perhaps the quest-for-equality and equal opportunity social revolution is not yet finished and until it does so globally, there will be continued social unrest in all countries and not just our own.
America is no longer living on self sustaining farms where the more children born made the work easier for everyone. By prohibiting child labor and “protecting” them perhaps children no longer had the early awareness learning that one must work to earn their living (the economics of living and facts of life)? Child labor is better than child wastefulness, but child abuse of any kind can not be allowed.
When both parents work to support the home and family, children perceive a partnership and sharing of tasks by both the Mother and Father in maintaining the home and providing for their welfare. The previously assigned roles where Mother is the homemaker and the Father the breadwinner now provide more individual self determination and offer more freedoms in the family familiar and much less stereotype role playing. It is not the modern day working Mother who upset the social fabric and educational achievement but perhaps it was the many welfare Mothers with yet another baby addition, increased crime due to confused morals, ethics, and government inadequacy to be effective in managing national resources or providing proper pathways for economic achievement. Divorces have increased statistically, but that may also have been necessary for the women to resist domestic violence, for them to not be submissive to spousal emotional and physical abuses, or being unable to live independently to fulfill their own potentials and life goals.
America's baby boomers are now senior citizens placing economic stresses on outmoded social systems. Social systems and government budgets presently are unable to accommodate the elderly, disabled, unemployed, and the many incarcerated for social crimes without depriving the young a quality education or the working adults their pay without burdensome taxation. Ironically, America is still engaged in foreign wars and generously helping the world while seemingly unable to help itself.
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