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husband whenever he stumbles or makes a mistake, is from
my point of view de facto reason of family breakdown.
I welcome this book and totally agree with it. My husband
grew up in the family where mother did not work and took
care of four children. Until all children turned independent,
the whole family lived very modestly off one teacher salary.
Yet one never had the feeling of something missing because
the mother could feed. All thanks to her culinary expertise,
when she often conjured up an entire feast from very little.
She was a gorgeous cook, a sort of “matriarch” but at the
same time respected her husband and supported his position
of breadwinner, although his teacher salary wasn’t very high.
And even though their children received tiny pocket money,
they never felt poor. All this happened when in other families
mothers already had their employment and thus their family
income came from both parents. And even though they had
more money, they kept saving for various useless things and
therefore their “advantage” of two salaries somehow dissipated.
My opinion is that such books are needed, especially among
devotee married couples, if our movement wants the return of
complete and functional families. False equality is nonsense.
It’s really needed for women to return to their most important
duties – bringing up children and the whole family care,
including the husband. And that means in every situation. It
can’t work otherwise. Someone must be the head and someone
must cherish, support, and care for that head – not to compete
with it. In our family we have some relatives, husband and
wife, who fight for domination and always argue, even in
front of their own family. This is very frustrating for all and
everyone prefers to run away from them.
So I wish you, young and full of vigor, many successes in
promoting these ideas. This book really deserves it! And not to
prohibit it, as I also somewhere learned about.