Graglia against Feminism: 5

A continuing series; see here for the introduction, and here for more on feminism in the Catholic Church in the UK.

From Domestic Tranquility p72.
When the mother in a two-parent family chooses to work, economic necessity (as opposed to advantage) is more likely to be the rationalizattion than the explanation for her decision. Feminism's effort to bring about the demise of the full-time housewife requiered diminishing the guilt felt by working mothers. thus began the constant effort to depict a two-income family as economically necessary when in most instances one income would provide the necessities of life--food, housing, and clothing. That the best-educated and highest-paid women are the ones who return to work the soonest after birth makes clear that something other than economic necessity has impelled women to abandon child care in favor of the workplace.