If you graduated school prior to the year 2000, chances are, you might have taken
a home economics or home studies class…if you were a girl that is.
There’s no denying how useful it is to learn these principles of domesticity.
Nowadays, the idea of women and men looking after the home and family is more accepted.
But sadly, home economics classes are dying out, and fewer schools are
giving their children – girls and boys – the opportunity to learn the basic skills of adulthood.
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I still remember the way she hesitated at the checkout counter. The girl, no more than ten, clutched a small chocolate birthday cake in both hands, its…
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My father’s voice rang across my dining room: “It’s your responsibility to pay for her wedding.” My mother sat stiffly beside him, nodding as if his demand…