'American society is structurally antagonistic toward single and solo-living people.' MsReads via voxdotcom
) make significantly less money over their lifetimes — it is women who often bear the biggest financial load of single life.
Single people should, in theory, be the purest embodiment of American values of self-sufficiency and individualism. That they’re not speaks to the fact that we don’t venerate the individual — we venerate the individual. The family fosters the conditions for the individual’s success: The spouse helps create the conditions that make success possible; children keep the individual grounded, focused, and humble.
Then she lost her job, and after four months of searching without success, she had no other option than to move back into her parents’ home in Las Vegas. She eventually found a “white-collar knowledge industry job” that she could do remotely and watched as her financial footing got more solid with each month.
That’s kind of the reverse of what happened to Rachel, 37, when she and her husband divorced three years ago. “If anything will throw your basic beliefs about the nuclear family and the partnered American dream out the window,” Rachel told me, “it’s an emotionally devastating breakup coinciding with the birth of your child.”
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