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At the end you touch on the boomer youth, otherwise known as the "Me" generation. It touches a different but related strand I've been thinking about: the decline of the household as a productive place where children are raised to participate in an endeavor greater than themselves, and its rebirth as a consumptive place ruled by the wife, where the husband labored in a sphere far from home and correspondingly became alienated from household-care and child-rearing. Both the left and the right responded to these changes inappropriately. As Erika Bachiochi puts it: "For decades, we’ve been stuck at an impasse in which the right assumes the separate spheres model in which all workers have someone at home to care for young children and the left pushes institutional childcare so parents can be free of caregiving and both can work." (https://eppc.org/publication/pursuing-the-reunification-of-home-and-work/)

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Interesting quote, Allison! I agree with your observation about the two-spheres model. As an archetype it doesn't work. In the biblical world, most work was based on the home and the home was more outward-facing. Something in the modern "private sphere" became isolated rather than properly private.

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This article is a gem. Thank you for your thoughtful engagement of Schaeffer ... he has encouraged me greatly (I'm close to your age) in my understanding of the world. I'm not a presuppositional apologist, nor am I reformed, but I'm pro-Schaeffer in all the ways that matter, at least to me.

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Kind of you to write this, Kelley! There is still a lot to learn fro Schaeffer and I'm grateful for his work.

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