What do you think the main cause for both parents needing to work today is?

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Sep 27, 2024
12:12:13am

conetah All-American

What do you think the main cause for both parents needing to work today is?

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conetah

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Author

Time

What do you think the main cause for both parents needing to work today is?

conetah

12:12am

Cost of goods, services, living, are high and a one middle class income can't cover it.

TANK

12:17am

Exponential rises in the cost of healthcare, housing, food, insurance.

rad dawg

12:18am

All of the above plus a need/desire for excess.

mulletino

12:20am

Higher standard of living, and lower wages

Jericho

12:32am

Two household incomes becoming the norm many years ago, which created more

CougFan4EverEver

12:36am

“Unintended”

BaseCoug

12:49am

Agreed

conetah

3:50am

This is a big part of the answer. A 2-income household in a world of 1-income

delbert

2:18am

All other answers are correct, but I’d ad that at least in America, middle class

gwalker

12:39am

The most important holiday in America used to be Christmas, and we didn't have

Shihan

12:49am

Greed. All around

BaseCoug

12:52am

FOMO

Dr MoBYU

12:55am

Middle class w 1 working parent is dying.

VenomFarmer

1:57am

Need?

MormonThug

2:55am

How low could your income be and your wife still be able to stay at home? $80k? $60k? $50k?

KingDave

3:05am

You're asking the wrong crowd. Did you forget? Everyone on CB is north of $500K

Y05

3:43am

Well, in our family’s case….

Yukon

3:09am

Man I had a beautifully crafted explanation I typed up but it didn’t save haha

conetah

3:18am

Reattempt: I’ll try to summarize.

conetah

3:46am

Primary worker income earnings is insufficient.

Recipefordisaster

3:18am

Everybody else is doing it, so they have more disposable income

Y05

3:29am

When everyone does the extra credit, it's no longer extra credit

Dataguy

3:33am

As # of dual-income families increase, so does the cost of living & real estate.

cougfrvr

4:31am

People like stuff. I used to do home health. Met a lot of people that raised 5

Squirt

4:32am

Need/want confusion. I agree with a lot of what has been written here

4:51am

The rise of too many other dual-income homes

Gustav

4:53am

An unfortunately ironic result of feminism

Gustav

4:55am

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