When women’s jobs became more important than family and the care and feeding of children, America’s health began its precipitous decline. From Mollie Engelhart at The Epoch Times via zerohedge.com:
There is a version of my life that could have existed, and for a long time it looked like the path I was on. I was a successful restaurateur, financially independent, living a neat and polished life that most people would label as accomplishment. I could have stayed that woman. A single woman with a couple of well-trained pets, a beautiful home in a gated golf-course community, and a thriving business. No obligations, no interruptions, and no sticky hands tugging my shirt while I tried to answer an email.
Society would have applauded that version of me and called it freedom.
The irony is that during that time, I was feeding thousands of people from-scratch food. I knew the value of real ingredients and traditional cooking techniques, yet I did not fully understand the deeper meaning of nourishment. Not just physical nourishment, but the cultural and generational work that happens when families cook and eat together. The work that forms identity.
Today my life looks very different. I have four children and a farm, and nothing about our life is quiet or controlled. Just yesterday my 10-year-old stood next to me making jam from blueberries and blackberries, and then we bottled homemade barbecue sauce. The younger kids ran barefoot around us, coming in and out of the kitchen like little barn swallows, leaving laughter, questions, and a trail of crumbs behind. It was chaotic, imperfect, and slow. Yet in the middle of the noise, I could feel something ancient. Something right.
Moments like that used to be normal. Today they are the exception, and that realization has been stirring something in me. It raises a difficult question that many people avoid because the answer is uncomfortable.
What changed? How did feeding our families become optional, inconvenient, or even burdensome? How did basic human skills become rare?
The more I look back, the more I land on a conclusion that people do not like to talk about. Women leaving the home during the era of second-wave feminism may be one of the primary root causes of America’s health crisis. And not only our health crisis, but a long list of problems I will not unravel in this article.
Saw the best of Dead Kennedys-Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death with concertina wire beard face at the record store and LOL.
They had Judge on vinyl as well!