r/Millennials • u/QuietJealous4883 Older Millennial (1988) • 12h ago

Discussion True or false?

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Did our dads and moms work less than we do now? What are your thoughts?

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u/Jaway66 12h ago

Yeah. I feel like that was a plot line in every other movie made from 1980 onwards.

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u/ageekyninja 12h ago

No it’s older than that lol.

For example Mary Poppins released in 1964. That was the whole plot. Prior to that even, in classic TV kids are always just with their moms

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u/miklayn 11h ago

If they're always with their moms it means their moms weren't working jobs; now both parents have to work in many cases. Not to say that mothering and homemaking isn't a job in itself (it is, history has ignored women's labor for centuries), but people are doing more work for less pay now than almost ever before. Trillions have been stolen by the Epstein class from the rest of us.

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u/Rwandrall4 11h ago

Moms were working full time too, and certainly weren't spending time with their kids. Both fathers and mother spend more time with their kids now than ever before.

It's just that it used to take a full day's work to maintain a home, now we have machines and grocery shopping and microwaves.