Written by Michael Thervil
Photo by Natalia Ciobanu
Today's question is: “What is a Traditional Wife?” When you ask many people, they think about anything pre 1965 in America. Even more than that people, mostly women, tend to think and associate those days when Traditional Wives were common as a time when women were considered inferior to men in every aspect of society. Furthermore, when you ask the modern woman what she thinks a Traditional Wife is, without a shadow of doubt, she’ll quickly think of women staying at home with the children, cooking, cleaning, and being subservient to a man. In fact, there is a significant number of women in America that think that word submission is a “dirty word”, especially when talking about submitting to a man. In fact, Western Women especially women in English speaking countries either think that submitting to a man is to be considered being a slave and/or a man must earn their submission.
This is one reason why there is no way modern women are going to be able to go back to being Traditional Wives in America. Part of the reason for this is because of the mindset held by most modern women which doesn't allow women in America to become or even be considered “fit” by American men, to be a Traditional Wife. Moreover, the concept of being a Traditional Wife has never been upheld and modeled in front of today's modern women in the setting of a traditional home which consists of a married man and woman. So, the next question of the day is: “How can the modern woman deliver something that she’s never seen, demonstrated to her, or been taught?”
Next modern women have to ask themselves, what are the characteristics of a Traditional Wife given the fact that according to the U.S. Census Bureau “[single] mothers maintain 80% of single mother-parent homes. If you look at another breakdown when it comes to the family structure in America, according to the Pew Research Center “comparing racial and ethnic groups, Hispanic mothers (38% in 2012) and Asian mothers (36%) are most likely to be home with their children. Among White mothers, 26% were home with their children in 2012, as were 27% of Black mothers.” The Pew Research Center also found in the same study that “among stay-at-home mothers, the “traditional” married stay-at-home mother (with a working husband) is the most common type among Asians, whites and Hispanics. Black stay-at-home mothers are most likely to be single.”
With this being said, the notion that modern women in America having the ability to become Traditional Wives is nothing more than a social trend at best, that fad is known today as "Trad Wives"; which will soon fade in the same matter as the previous diet fad. Backing this position is the Pew Research Center. Within the findings mentioned above, they also concluded due to their research that “foreign-born mothers are far more likely than U.S.-Born mothers not to work outside the home. In 2012, 40% of immigrant mothers were stay-at-home mothers, compared with 26% of U.S.-Born mothers. Immigrants also are more likely than U.S.-Born mothers to be married stay-at-home mothers.”
This particular finding gives significant credence to what is known as the “Passport Bros” a moniker that was coined by Houston Attorney Dennis Spurling. Passport Bros is an American social movement started by men who travel abroad to find wives because they have come to the conclusion that American women are not fit to be wives in a nutshell. What is presented here is nothing more than a mere “touching the surface” in which a greater social pathology exists when it comes to American women and their endemic inability to become what is known and beloved by men internationally as Traditional Wives.
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