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May 31, 2013

Report Shows Record Number of Female Breadwinners; Pundit Calls Shift "Anti-Science" 
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A new Pew Research Center report says a record number of mothers in the
United States are now the primary breadwinners for their families. Among
households with children under 18, 40 percent are now supported by women
as the top earner, nearly quadruple the amount a half century ago. A
quarter of homes with children are headed by single moms. On Thursday,
right-wing pundit Erick Erickson drew outrage for his response to the
report about the rising number of female breadwinners. Speaking on Fox
News to host Lou Dobbs he said the shift was undermining supposed
biological roles for males and females.

Erick Erickson: "Liberals who defend this and say it is not a bad thing
are very anti-science. When you look at biology — when you look at
the natural world — the roles of a male and a female in society
and in other animals, the male typically is the dominant role. The
female, it's not antithesis, or it's not competing, it's a complementary
role. We as a people in a smart society have lost the ability to have
complementary relationships in nuclear families and it's tearing us
apart."

 

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