In two-thirds of American families with children, all parents work outside the home. But American society is still largely built around the assumption that one parent does not.
As the population historian Steven Ruggles has written, throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, a majority of American households were 'corporate families' wherein all members, including the children, supported the family business, most commonly a farm.
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