Title: Work–family balance in the United States - Wikipedia
Headings: Work–family balance in the United States
Work–family balance in the United States
Contents
History
Legislation
Equal Pay Act of 1963
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993
Effects on families
Problems affecting middle-class families
Delayed fertility
Ideology of motherhood
Inequalities in care work
Problems affecting lower-class families
Single-parenting
Care work
Solutions
Care crisis
Workplace
Government support
See also
References
External links

Content: Influenced by the Englightenment, several changes to marriage occurred: the move toward individualism and the loosening of church influence over families after the Protestant Reformation resulted in the flourishing of the two-parent farm family. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, the two-parent farm family was the dominant family model, in which both parents working side by side on family farms The two-parent farm family ceased to be the dominant family model after the Industrial Revolution occurred. The 1920s was the first time that the majority of children lived in two-parent breadwinner-homemaker families (one where the father supported the family financially and the mother supported the family domestically). In 19th century farm settings, children were an important part of their families' agricultural livelihoods. As industrialization occurred and families shifted from rural agricultural settings to urban ones, the number of children per household also declined. Children became less of an economic benefit and more of a cost: urban life necessitated educating children which was costly. During the 1910s and 1920s, women delayed childbirth for economic opportunities that were present in urban areas. However, this trend reversed during the Great Depression because of the lower number of economic opportunities available for women.