a family structure to raise your children. We packed them off to day-care centers where they could get their nurturing from professionals” (Ebeling, 361). After ten or twelve years is your child really yours? S/he has been influenced for years by people not even in your family, and may not have been raised with the standards you would have used. Biologically and legally, your child is yours, but is s/he really? All this can do is cause for the degeneration of our modern day family structure. Children do not feel as close to their parents as they have in the past. Children do not treat their parents with the same respect as did children of the past – they know no faith. This lack of family involvement and warmth grows as children grow. Later in life, they may see fit to do the same to their children and perhaps to their husbands and/or wives. This simply lowers the quality of the society in which we live. What are people with no faith, no morals, and no love? Are they people at all?In addition to the improper rearing of a child, unemployment has been affected by women in the workforce. Now that women are taking over jobs traditionally held by men, those men are out of jobs. This adds to our country’s unemployment rate. The liberation of women has alleviated the strain placed on men as well. Now men are free to come and go as they please, save and spend what they wish, and bear loyalty to no one. “To me feminism has backfired against women.” “Today I see feminism as the Great Experiment That Failed” (Ebeling, 361) and Mrs. Ebeling couldn’t be more correct. Feminism has not only struck out against men and women, but children and society as well. Unemployment, no family structure, no loyalty, degradation of society – these all seem to be things which we fight against should they stand individually, but should they stand collectively under one name – feminism R...
