Cykros on Nostr: Could be, though that absence was largely seasonal, with a LOT of time spent very ...

Could be, though that absence was largely seasonal, with a LOT of time spent very much together through the cold dark winters.

I do wonder how much the shift away from agrarian society had to do with a shift in the perceived value breakdown of domestic vs public work. Running a farm and cleaning a small house are very different things (and often come with very different staffing arrangements). The isolation that comes with a more modern domestic life surely had a negative impact on the wellbeing of women in more recent modern society. That, and the relative access to capital. Some cultures seem to handle this better than others. I hear from the Japanese that men get lucky if they're given an allowance from what's left of their paycheck, while it wasn't very long ago here in America that women couldn't even have their own bank accounts or a credit card without their father or husband cosigning.

I would agree though that Christian marriage values are certainly healthier than contemporary secular humanist ideas. Where they'd rank among other traditional cultures is something I don't feel quite as qualified to weigh in on.