The Stream examines the growing trend in the US in which women are turning to the traditional stay-at-home lifestyle. A wave of young women in the West is rejecting careers to embrace life as tradwives. Instead of chasing promotions, they're making home-cooked meals, polished homemaking skills and enjoying the promise of being cared for by a husband while keeping it all Instagram-ready.
As a child, Ruth is eccentric and absent-minded, and her mother often accuses her of "buddling," meaning "to waste time on little jobs; to fuss, to fiddle, to sit in a corner skinning twigs with the edge of a spoon instead of tidying up." When Ruth is older, her mother's warning turns prophetic: she spends much of her adult life doing odd tasks, only now at the behest of her church, which puts her to work digging fencepost holes.
I'm absorbing a lot of criticism and I'm not really allowed to give my own. I'm a sounding board for everyone's emotions but I need to be reserved in my own until I know how you're going to feel about them. I'm pushing forward and supporting you whenever and however I can. I barely even have my own thoughts unless you say it's okay.
In a recent survey, 74% of families reported that children have the final say regarding moving into a new house. This indicates the significant influence children have in housing decisions, asserting their views in family discussions about relocation.
Pastor Doug Wilson stated, 'In my ideal society, we would vote as households. I would ordinarily be the one to cast the vote, but I would cast the vote having discussed it with my household.'
Wen Fan, who studies the future of work at Boston College, noted that men are more likely to occupy managerial roles, which affects their presence in the office. Consequently, managers tend to return to the office more than non-managers, indicating a strong connection between job position and return-to-work dynamics.
I was saddened to learn that gen Z parents don't read to their children because they don't have time, dislike having to read the same book over and over, don't enjoy reading books themselves or find it boring.
The Cannes festival's Immersive Competition began in 2024, although the lineup doesn't usually feature traditional video games. VR films and projection mapping is the thrust of it, says iNK Stories' other co-founder, Vassiliki's husband Navid Khonsari.
The way I treat my male and 'female' characters helps crystallise the feelings I have about these figures within the larger political and social dynamics we're seeing both in the U.S. and internationally.
"This recent data unveils alarming trends among Australia's Gen Z men who increasingly endorse traditional gender roles and exhibit misogynistic attitudes, which are worsened by online communities."
What I thought was the ultimate truthâbelieving women were misled into corporate life instead of nurturing rolesâwas a misguided perspective that I later recognized as flawed.