Remember that only 30 years earlier contraceptives were proscribed by all Christian denominations.
With the assistance of news, current affairs and entertainment media, the feminists achieved spectacular success in influencing or intimidating young mothers into taking permanent paid employment outside their homes, and placing their few children in care.
This was a complete transformation of our society's culture.
When the contraceptive mentality of feminism took mothers from their homes into the workforce, it left their school-age children unsupervised after school.
The devil makes work for idle hands, especially unsupervised idle hands.
When the young are left to do what they like, they almost always don't do good.
When those wives and mothers forsook their homes for the workforce, they left our neighbourhoods empty.
Neighbourhoods have been, and remain, vitally important to communities.
Neighbourhoods are support groups. Neighbouring young mothers are able to socialise with one another and help one another in various ways, all the while building a valuable community unit.
Neighbours also provide additional supervision of neighbourhood children, especially teenagers, after school.
The contraceptive mentality has destroyed neighbourhood; without neighbourhoods a community is dysfunctional.
Not only do neighbourhoods cultivate better-behaved local communities, they also make neighbours safer. Strangers who might be villains are quickly spotted and kept an eye on.
The flip-side of this is that women who do stay at home in deserted suburbs are no longer able to avail themselves of the wisdom/experience of similar mothers.
Worse, much worse, is that those women who are at home in deserted suburbs are not safe. Think Tania Furlan, Joanne McCarthy ...
As for unemployment, in the 1960s no one spoke of unemployment because no one who wanted a job was without one.
Data from the Department of Statistics apprises us that a developed society like ours consistently provides full-time paid jobs for 35 per cent of the population.
Jobs don't just materialise because hordes of women descend upon the workforce marketplace.
When jobs are available to 35 per cent of the population, 65 per cent of the population are unemployed.
But that's fine when that 65 per cent comprises children and mothers and the retired, as was the case in 1961.
But now the 35 per cent employed includes a large number of young wives/mothers. Consequently, the 65 per cent unemployed includes a large number of 'bread winners' whose jobs have been taken by young married (or de facto) women and mothers.
Those bread winners become unemployment statistics, and their families become impoverished.
Ah, feminism, what wonders you have performed!
LEO LEITCH
Benneydale
