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I see comments that include characterizations of un or under employed men in relationships as "deadbeats". Do these letter writers believe that women in relationships where they are the un or underemployed partner to be "golddiggers" or some other gender specific derogitory term?
As a baby boomer who was a stay at home dad with a working wife in 1970, I have always thought that feminism's push for gender equality was a win-win... a no-brainer. If women had more options then it just followed that men, too could enjoy more options. I was a good parent, and did have an artist's income (ha ha ha) to contribute to the relationship.
But, that's the way it works in my estimation. If you're in a long term relationship, and in particular with children, then it isn't about "your money/my money". It's about "our money". Otherwise you don't have a relationship. You have a business arrangement.
