Why did the economy change that we need 2 full-time breadwinners as opposed to 1 less than a decade ago?

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Edit: I meant less than a century ago! My bad! Just a brain fart.

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This goes back to the turn of the century for black Americans. The post war 1950s image of nuclear family with a dad working and the mom raising 2.3 kids in the suburbs was the exception not the norm.

Look at Boston Irish catholic slums where the woman were working and child malnutrition was common even on two incomes.