I estimate that about 20% of American women make good wives. Another 20% or so could have made good wives, but things didn’t work out. The median age of marriage today is about 28, but a woman who gets married at age 28 is often in a relationship with the man she will marry by age 26, or earlier. I think most of the 20% of women that make Good Wives are gone by 26. Of the 20% that could have made good wives, but didn’t; by age 26, most of them have been too far corrupted.

These numbers, admittedly, leave out the Fuglies, some of whom might make good wives to equally Fugly men. No woman should be Fugly, and wouldn’t be, if she ate well and got some exercise. Oh well.

So, by age 26, the good women are gone. They are no longer single. A few are, but they are the stragglers. So, who is left?

About 25% of non-Hispanic White children today are born to Single Moms. Let’s say that means that about 25% of non-Hispanic White women become Single Moms. Probably, they are not married by 28 either. If half of women are married by then, but none of the Single Moms, that means about half of single women over 26 are Single Moms. If 20% of women are confirmed sluts, and these don’t get married by 26 (before their Epiphany Phase), then 40% of the women who are left after age 26 are Sluts. Plus, all the other wreckage and leftovers. When the good ones are gone, it seems like all the women who are left Are Like That.

Marriage and Civilization (2014), by William Tucker, is a worthwhile book for many reasons. Among them is a mention of something that I have not heard anywhere else — the “Family Wage” agreement.

The “family wage” emerged in the late 19th century to allow women to withdraw from the workforce.

To unregulated capitalism, men, women, and children were interchangeable. … by expanding the workforce, all could be paid lower wages. … The response was a series of reforms that attempted to limit the role of women and children in the workplace. … All this came to a crescendo in the Family Wage Movement of the early twentieth century, led by a coalition of the Catholic Church, the labor unions, the social welfare movement, and even some Socialist political parties. The core principle was that the head of the household should be able to make a “living wage” that would support his family without his wife and children having to work. As John A. Ryan, a leading American Catholic reformer, wrote in A Living Wage, published in 1906: “The welfare of the whole family, and that of society likewise, renders it imperative that the wife and mother should not engage in any labor except in the household.”

Marvelously, the “Family Wage” achieved three major reforms at one stroke: 1) it raised men’s wages by limiting the size of the workforce; 2) it strengthened families by freeing women to concentrate on child-rearing; 3) it equalized incomes across society. ...

Although never actually formalized by statute, the Family Wage system became an informal contract in European and American society through the first half of the twentieth century. The general principle was that married women should not work. (p. 149-150)

Of course, this began to deteriorate in the 1960s.

Perhaps the most critical blow to the monogamous culture of the 1950s came with the demise of the “family wage,” the system adopted informally in America and Western Europe at the start of the twentieth century. The goal of the family wage was to strengthen families and distribute income more evenly across society by limiting everyone to one wage-earner per family. In practice, this became a simple rule: unmarried, divorced, or widowed women could work but married women were expected to stay at home with their children. This was regarded by middle-class reformers as a triumph for lower-class women who would now be able to create a protected domain in the home just as their middle-class counterparts had already done.

Unfortunately, the family wage was a disadvantage to one specific group — highly educated, professionally ambitious women. They would spend four years at college gaining useful skills and then be forced to “retire” as housewives. (p. 217)

Three new churches a day are being built in Russia.

Russia Building Three Churches A Day

Allyson Rowe, who looked in danger of becoming a professional “Season of Singleness” coach in the manner of Wendy Griffith or Mandy Hale, has recently joined the New Wives club. Now go make some babies.

I guess there is a genre of young mostly Christian women making videos about how to be a better wife, and they are all at least an 8/10. Some of their advice is a little floppy, but if you start with the idea of “what can I do for my husband and family” it is almost impossible to go wrong.

As I have said before, being a stay-at-home wife without children is what I have called a “woman of leisure.” Husbands don’t require so much attention that they should occupy very much time. Often a new house will benefit from a round of serious decorating, in preparation for children later when there won’t be time to shop for sofas, plant daffodils or paint the bathroom. Learn how to cook. Get in the habit of working out every day. Learn about nutrition, and homeschooling.

Mostly, husbands don’t need that much care. They can take care of themselves. Sometimes, women who want to be good wives go a little overboard in husband-care. That excess energy eventually goes into childcare. Nevertheless, this wife has the right idea, which is:

Be productive. Do something beneficial to others.
Don’t make problems. Don’t consume too many resources.

If you do these two things, you will be a net value creator. You will be a producer, not a taker.

Still, she leaves out two important things, which are:

Be a babe. She obviously gets this one right, as she is a 9/10 girl, maybe 10/10 if she works out regularly.

Be a Sex Goddess. Since her first item is “touch your husband,” I am guessing she has this one covered too. Instructions here.

If you start looking into what is actually in those vaccines, you soon find that they contain all kinds of unhealthy stuff, not really related to the vaccine itself. Thus, it should be no surprise that the result of injecting all kinds of unhealthy stuff into your babies is that they have all kinds of health issues afterwards.

http://ipaknowledge.org/ipak-vaxxed-v-unvaxxed-study.php

In the interest of providing good examples, here is a video from YT about “how to be a good wife.” Because, if you are not a good wife, then you are probably a bad wife, making some guy miserable for no good reason.

I haven’t watched this video, but this woman is apparently a homeschooling mother of eleven (!), and you can see the results of her effort with her daughter on the right. Can I also say that, as a housewife in her mid-fifties, she looks great?

Here are two books from the past, recently updated. I haven’t read them, but they seem to be popular in Christian circles today.

The first is Beautiful Girlhood (1922), by Mabel Hale. It is available in Kindle edition for $0.99 here.

It was updated by Karen Andreola, available here.

The second is Winsome Womanhood (1900), by Margaret Sangster (not Margaret Sanger). You can read it in free .pdf here.

It was lightly revised by Shelley Noonan and released as Beyond Beautiful Girlhood, the “next step in the Beautiful Girlhood series.”

I generally prefer original to updated versions. But, if you want a 14yo girl to read it, it can help to have a more contemporary tone.

In the TJed homeschooling method, which is very ambitious, “Scholar phase” includes about 5000-8000 hours of study of high-quality materials. Most people never get this, even those that go to top boarding schools and universities. So, it is recommended that parents who take this seriously give themselves the kind of education that they want to impart on their children. This means about 5000 hours of study. The TJed people recommend that this take the form of about 2 hours a day of study (mostly, reading books), Monday-Friday, or about ten hours a week, fifty weeks a year, for a decade.

Yes, you study two hours a day for a decade. You don’t have to, but the kind of parent who thinks this sort of thing is important for their child, is also the kind of parent who thinks it is important for themselves. So, if you are a young mother thinking about elite-level homeschooling of your children, this is something to begin thinking about, and then, actually doing. Being a full-time Mom isn’t just about cooking and cleaning anymore, is it? Once you start down this path, you will discover how poorly-educated most people are, including those that graduated from top universities.

The Classics list at TJed.org is a good place to start. Or, you might try this: The Well-Educated Mind: The Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had (2003), by Susan Wise Bower.

Many homeschooling Moms do this while their own children are studying. So, while the child is reading Little House on the Prairie, Mom is reading The Spirit of the Laws.