Why do you think so little of marriage that you've reduced it to what someone else can do for you financially?
I am not reducing it to that. I am saying that women treat the government as a husband in provision for them.
Women aren't asking for handouts though, like 75% of single mothers are employed, and the majority of those women work full-time. If you actually look at the stats, low income MARRIED families are the ones receiving a large chunk of government benefits. Benefits are based on poverty and income, not on marital status. Which is another reason why paying people a fair wage is so important.
This is statistically inaccurate. Single-parent families, particularly those headed by women, receive significantly more government assistance than two-parent families.
I genuinely don't understand why the majority of the blame for these situations is always put on women. Only about 25% of single mothers even receive child support, which means the majority of single women are out there working, contributing to the economy, paying taxes, and also raising children on their own.
Yet you're choosing to harp on women who are in these tough positions because they choose to vote for policies that benefit them. You do realize that the men who contributed to making these women single mothers, the men who literally walked away from their families, and abandoned their responsibilities, would still retain their right to vote.
Statistically women initiate approximately 69% to 70% of divorces. Almost 50% of single women receive some form of government support. A lot of women have to chose between child support and government assistance so that equates to potentially 70 + % of women receiving some form of spousal or government support. There are also many church, community, and family members (outside of the spouse) who end up helping single women. This concept of single women raising children "on their own" really doesn't carry the all the weight you propose.
When 70% of divorces are initiated by women I don't call that men walking away from their families. Many women choose these tough positions.
I can't believe so many people still buy into this 1950s b*******, lol. Women throughout history have worked outside of the home, it didn't just start with feminism. Our grandmother's, our great grandmothers, and our great great grandmothers, all worked outside of the home. What are you even talking about? Even scripture references women who worked outside of their homes, people love to reference the Proverbs 31 woman as an example of this, but look at Mary, Joanna and Susanna, they literally left their homes to travel with the ministry, and if I'm remembering correctly they even supported it financially?
Until the industrial revolution women didn't work outside of the home in terms in terms working outside of:
Family Business
Agricultural Labor: Women on farms worked the fields alongside men, performing tasks such as planting, weeding, and harvesting, often continuing through pregnancy and immediately after childbirth.
Domestic Service: In urban centers, a significant portion of working women were employed as servants, living and working in other households to perform cooking, cleaning, and childcare. (Note that these domestic employments often employed multiple family members or whole families.)
Cottage Industry: Many women participated in home-based trades like spinning yarn, weaving cloth, and brewing beer, selling their products in local markets under the "putting-out" system.
Skilled Trades: Women operated businesses such as inns, worked as midwives, healers, seamstresses, and laundresses, and some wealthy women managed household economies that functioned as small enterprises
And outside of domestic service women operated solely under the headship of their husband. They didn't have a boss who was now at odds with the relationship hierarchy between the husband and wife. Where she had to choose which master to serve.
As far as the women supporting Christs and his apostles ministries in the bible. They either were operating from under their husbands headship and approval or were unmarried.
You keep speaking about these biblical orders and roles, like it's some general mandate that all men are positioned above all women in everyday society. Nearly every verse referencing headship and submission in that regard is confined to the covenant of marriage, and even if you look at that order within the marriage covenant, the way that order is practiced is ultimately subject to the husband, not to you.
I agree. But what happens when a woman has a boss and a husband. And they have conflicting orders or priorities to her time. Which master does she serve?
You're literally inserting yourself into other people's marriages, removing the husband's headship right, and inserting your own definition of what their marriages should look like to you.
If a man chooses to let his wife work outside of the home that is up to him. I have not told any man what decision he can make for his household or marriage. I was specifically addressing you, another woman with what my opinion was. Working outside the home very easily goes against biblical order. But it is the husbands decision on that. A woman choosing to work outside of the home, prioritizing a career over family, especially when her husband prefers otherwise is pushing her own will and going against biblical order. And there are women who do choose career over family.