Meet the rural housewife, circa 1918. We’ll call her Mary. Even two generations removed from her pioneer foremothers, she might live in what is best described as Log Cabin 2.0 with a half dozen stairstep children. Her husband might add more rooms as another half dozen children come along. Life for the Marys was “hard, endless, dirty labor.” Dinnertime came from chickens the women [...]
Would you read what an economist has to say about love? Would you stick with the book if it detailed the costs of love? I would, as long as that economist was Jennifer Roback Morse. She’s no longer a professor at George Mason University (motherhood intervened) but in Love and Economics: It Takes a Family to Raise a Village, Dr. Morse turns her economist [...]
Unless you’ve been living some kind of Outlander existence for the last 50 years, you might have caught on that Mormons are big on families. Traditional ones. One mom. One dad. Some children. Some people — inside the church, actually — wish we’d shut up about it. We won’t. We don’t think we can afford to. While speaking up may be our strength, I don’t [...]
