FootballFirst
Well-Known Member
in the old days, i.e before 1960, women didn't work in the numbers that they do today. since the majority of women didn't work, they were dependent on men to a large degree for food, housing, and shelter. today, women provide for themselves and are not financially dependent on men. this allows women to leave a man that she is not happy with for one reason or another where as before, if a woman left her husband she would have to take the kids and would have no means with which to support herself. for better or for worse, the development of the financially independent woman has caused the increased divorce rate in the United States.