Hmm most middle class and higher families in the states are two earners families with the lower middle class and downwards having one or both parents unemployed or intermediately employed.<p>The days of the American nuclear family with the dad having a career and the mom becoming a world class housewife are pretty much over.<p>And considering that low income &#x2F; low skill jobs are more available to men and that low income jobs will not be able to fund childcare that pushes lower class families to become single earner families even more.