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by war1025 2150 days ago
So then this suffers from the same issue that for instance public education does: A focus on the bottom tier to the detriment of and middle and top.

The bad outcomes are potentially very bad, so society disincentivises single income households to the detriment of the large swath of people that may actually benefit from it.

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I mean, then there is social isolation and routine of being at home. Even at bottom and top, many women are simply not cut for that. They don't like that role, they do get depressed and don't perform well. I remember reading that being at home is a risk factor for female alcoholism (another is working in male dominated job and drinking along men).

Like, not everyone was happy at lockdown and it seemed to me easier situation then being stay at home. (Due to working with others remotely, many people having same shared experience. )

And the bottom here did not used to be small nor rare. The really bad stuff about abuse still happens, through less often. And then, divorces happen more often. With single income, they would be more rare, but that marriage will be more of a trap.