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The rigid ideal of the male breadwinner and female housekeeper is something that emerged in the post WWII era of unprecedented prosperity. It wasn't the norm before as women did have to work. In fact I'd go as far as to say the women who didn't work were the exception because they happened to be lucky enough to be upper class while lower class women often worked. Granted it was work from the home many times like peasant wives working at the farm or urban women staying home to craft some household product to be sold. But they might also work outside the home as well as secretaries or teachers. Working didn't prevent or discourage them from starting a family. In fact it was often because they had a family with children that they went off to find work.And why do both parents have to work?
Because those at the top have conspired to crush the middle class and make a single-income household unrealistic for all but the well off.
What you're saying isn't necessarily wrong to be fair but its also not the only factor at play. With education becoming increasingly important women are spending their prime birthing years getting their degrees and establishing their careers.
I think as a society we need to make motherhood as easy as possible as well as facilitating family planning to dissuade those who aren't ready for motherhood(teenagers, the destitute etc) from having children. Ironically that 2nd idea is more liberal that often finds resistance from pro-family conservative types. It would also work to towards the interests of the "white genocide" people since teenage pregnancy is more common among minority communities than whites and the sort of career oriented young woman who stays single is more likely to be white, though I don't quite care for those folks and their conspiracies.