"work an ordinary job, buy a house, settle down with a wife and support two or three children"
Have you considered that there's more to human existence than to pay a mortgage and women are not something you keep in your house to watch after your offspring so they can do the very same when growing up?
I'm not sure what you're responding to, or why you're responding in such a hostile way. The wife can be the breadwinner, too.
Owning a home and having a parent be able to stay home with your children, husband or wife, are important pillars of a stable life.
Who wants a society in which couples don't have time to parent their children or manage their household?
It's a fact that seeing to your children's education and social life, cleaning, cooking, and all of the other non-sexy activities of running a household are a full-time job. It doesn't need to be the wife that does that, but it's best when somebody in the family can.
> Owning a home and having a parent be able to stay home with your children, husband or wife, are important pillars of a stable life.
I'm with you but I think we're in the minority nowadays. "Progress" seems to mean paying someone else (who cares a lot less about your children than you do to) to raise your children starting from the moment that maternity leave ends. But at least you get to live close to a big city, and I guess our GDP is a little higher.
That's not the point being made. Whether you're into the traditional marriage/family social schema or not (and personally I'm very much not), it's still something that most of the population wants, that society expects and relies on. The fact that it's not something achievable anymore is clearly a big problem.
Have you considered that there's more to human existence than to pay a mortgage and women are not something you keep in your house to watch after your offspring so they can do the very same when growing up?