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...World War II, families across America are looking for novel strategies to maximize their earnings. Enter Megan Basham, author of “Beside Every Successful Man”, whose controversial claim is that women, by quitting their jobs and applying their skills, education, and talent to advance their husbands?? careers, can achieve greater financial security for their families than with two incomes. Marketed to business savvy career women who desire a “slower-paced, more graceful, family oriented life,” Basham’s book outlines a plan wherein wives transform into indispensable...
...wife of the founder of Amazon.com and the wife of the former CEO of Time Warner. These are women who relinquish financial autonomy and rely on their husbands for monetary support. Yet, for the majority of women, the decision to leave the workplace in order to become their husbands?? most dutiful cheerleaders is far more risky. With a 50-50 chance of divorce and the unforeseeable risk of spousal death and illness, ordinary women who heed Basham’s advice may well find themselves high...
...families—were largely to blame for the rise in domestic poverty rates since the 1980s. Due to the myths perpetuated by “pro-family” Basham-types—that women need not cultivate their own careers, but should merely nurture those of their husbands??the removal of the man from the family, whether due to death or divorce, can impoverish its remaining members...
...opinions lead us to this conclusion.The most incendiary—although not most extreme—example of Alito’s radicalism is his dissent in the 1991 abortion rights case, Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey. He supported a law that mandated that wives receive their husbands?? permission to seek abortions. This law would have subjected battered women to further abuse from their spouses, and the Supreme Court rightly rejected it as an “undue burden” on the right to get an abortion. Nothing short of a woman?...
...JoeSchmoe123 may come back to haunt him someday, when it’s least expected, if AOL is subpoenaed for his AIM transcripts or for a listing of his posts on public forums. Perhaps, entangled in messy separations, angry divorcées will begin calling for their philandering husbands?? online conversations to inflate their settlements. Lives will be ruined and public humiliation imminent, all for seemingly innocuous words typed many years...