I tend to skeptical of these easy, kind of pat answers about the collapse of society because of the death of the nuclear family. But there is no denying the pressures created by families with two working parents. Still, I suspect a hard look would reveal much more than women joining the workforce as a cause of more mass shootings. The vast, vast majority of kids who grow up in broken homes, or with two working parents, thankfully don't become mass murderers.

And there are lots of benefits to societies that make young girls believe that the world offers more than just staying at home with the kids as an option.

In fact, for most of my generation's rise from kid to parent (and I think the first generation to have two working parents as the norm), violent crime has generally decreased, which would seem to fly in the face of this quick conclusion. Fortunately, as tragic as each one of these mass shootings is, they are outliers - the odds of any individual kid becoming what this Florida kid just became are so small as to basically be 0. Seems to me it would be very hard to draw one specific conclusion of a root cause.

Which might actually be a decent counterpoint to gun control arguments, although I don't know of too many proponents that expect a magic solution.

In any event, seems highly possible to me that the entire definition of "work" may be in the process of changing. I doubt that humanity is going to find itself out of work en masse as many predict, but I do think the concept of leaving home to commute to an office might become a quaint remnant of the past someday soon, and families with both parents working may increasingly be families with stay at home moms and dads.
[Post edited by hoolstoptheheels at 02/21/2018 12:28PM]