1971, CPI, currency debasement, debt, divorce, family, gold window, goods producing, Inflation, marriage, public schools, real median household income, real wages, Richard Nixon, services, social justice warriors, USD, Wall Street, working mothers

The chart below captures much of what has gone wrong in this country since 1970. Households in 1970 looked entirely different than households today. In 1970, almost 71% of all households consisted of married couples. Today, only 50% of all households are occupied by married couples. The divorce rate prior to 1970 ranged between 9 and 11 per 1,000 married women. After 1970 the divorce rate skyrocketed by 100% to between 20 and 23 per 1,000 married women.

In 1970 46% of two parent households had a stay at home mom. Only 33% of mothers worked full-time in 1970. That was true because a family could live a decent middle class life on one salary. In 1970 31% of all the jobs in the country were higher paying goods production jobs. Today, only 10% of jobs are goods producing jobs. The shift from a country based upon saving and production to a services oriented nation based on debt based consumption is reflected in the chart.

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The primary reason the percentage of mom’s working full time has risen from 33% to 52% is the fateful decision by Richard Nixon to close the gold window in 1971, allowing central bankers to print money, create relentless inflation (83% loss in purchasing power of USD), promoting the financialization of America by Wall Street, and encouraged politicians to promise voters goodies they can never deliver without the ability to run up the national debt without a seeming consequence.

The real wages of men have not advanced since 1970. Real median household income is no higher than it was in 1989. The only reason married households can make ends meet is to have both parents working full time. One of the biggest reasons for divorce is financial stress. It is no coincidence divorce rates soared once mothers were forced into the workforce full-time, putting tremendous stress on households across the nation.

With so many mothers being forced into the job market to maintain a minimal standard of living, their children have been left to be raised by low paid strangers in daycare centers and government run public indoctrination schools. The result has not been positive for the country. Children being raised by strangers or living latchkey lives perform worse in school and end up psychologically adverse toward marriage in general. The dramatic rise in divorce and tremendous decrease in married couple families has left the country vulnerable, demoralized, confused, and angry.

The average person isn’t sure who to blame for their plight, as the ruling class use propaganda, misinformation, false storylines, and make believe enemies (terrorists, foreigners) to keep the masses unsure of who and what to believe. The truth is the politicians and central bankers who debased and continue to debase our currency, while creating an never ending plethora of bubbles and busts, have destroyed the standard of living for middle class Americans and have set in motion an irreversible decline and collapse of the family unit. And this collapse is being perpetuated, encouraged, and cheered by the social justice warriors and enemies of the traditional family. They are winning. This will be another battlefront in the coming civil wars.

http://www.theburningplatform.com/2015/11/09/decline-of-the-family/