OK, so here's the controversial take. And let me preface this by saying what women choose to do with their life is great. Being a stay at home mom is great. Being a working mom is great. Being a woman without kids is also great.

For many women, being a stay at home mom makes financial sense. The cost of daycare outpaces their income potential as well as the host of other services they provide for the home. And even if it doesn't make financial sense, it's fine if it's a free choice...BUT

In evangelical Christian circles it is a culturally exerted norm for the wife to be a stay at home mom. It's supposedly a Biblical command even- to care for and raise the children. But it is really a solidly middle class to upper middle class model that doesn't work for most.

And the more underclass in these circles still try to follow this model to the detriment of their families because it is the Ideal in this world. And every recession this is exposed as an inferior model when the breadwinner is laid off/furloughed.

And I believe it contributes to our completely neurotic politics along with the paltry safety net. Every downturn is life or death. Keeping people at home for a month will break these people even to stop a pandemic.

One would think that people who lived in this model would support stronger employment and safety net protections but such is the hold of Republican politics and propaganda on this group. While R's pretend to look for ways to help the working folk...

And ignore every obvious solution and instead resort to subsidizing massive ag producers in ineffective trade wars and keeping immigrants out as a demogogic sop instead.

Anyway, this isn't the place to address the Christian Biblical view here but I'll just say this: Lydia.