A Mother’s Home Is Her Castle: In Favor of Homemakers

Second-wave feminism, which expanded rapidly in the late 1960’s, declared open war against the family home and its traditional values. In the traditional home, the husband-father was the primary breadwinner and protector of the household, while the housewife-mother was the primary homemaker and caregiver of their children. Together, in a marriage, they were considered the […]

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The Family Wage and Domestic Work in Roman Catholic Discourse

From Rerum Novarum to Amoris Laetitia Every Roman Catholic magisterial document that confronts the key social issues of our contemporary culture should be compulsory reading for many, but especially for those researchers who reflect on the centrality of the family in the lives of every human being and of society at large. The great ideologies […]

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