On A Claire Day by Carla Ventresca and Henry Beckett for December 20, 2015

Typical, the father is the steadfast pragmatic the mother is the pie in the sky dreamer, until it impacts her.

it used to be something women could actually do, but with the sexual revolution of the sixties and the breakdown of the family, many women no longer have this option. It’s work or starve, or go on the public dole.