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[–]Bitch-Im-a-cow 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It's presentist hatred of the 'other', concocted by far right propagandists to distract from the actual reasons for the demise of the nuclear family - caused by the Republicans under Nixon and Reagan - so that potential voters for the Republican party will be unaware of history.

Nuclear family: traditionally tied to farming and industry, where one member of the primary household earned enough to support the rest of the family.

The New Deal and WWII developed additional support for this nuclear family, developing the 'American Dream' of the 1950s and 1960s.

All of that changed with deregulation, union busting, and helping companies move overseas, or import cheap labor, by Republicans and under Nixon and Reagan, which resulted in wage stagnation. See the graphs here: https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/

As productivity continued to improve, wages remained low, and families required both parents to work, have less money in savings, and require their kids to work and take loans in order to attend college. Families could not afford to stay together.

If workers shared the profits of a company's productivity, as they did before 1970, there would still be nuclear families.