The majority of men in demanding jobs have wives who stay home and bring up children...The longer hours a man works, the more likely he is to have children, and the more children he is likely to have. It’s still ideologically important for a man to be seen to provide for a family.
litlove, Tales from the Reading Room
It is too true. Also bloody depressing; at least I find it so. The locution "to be seen" that litlove uses is perfect; my series of posts last year on "signaling" was getting at the same thing, with a nod back at the great Thorstein Veblen.
litlove's whole post is worth reading.
Come to think of it, there was an article in Details a number of months ago, before the worst of the downturn, about how hedge fund guys were getting into the large family thing, because they could. Anecdotal, of course, but still.
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