Journalist David Goodhart chronicles the drastic ways that family life has changed over the last 60 years, looking at changes in gender equality and family stability.

Is it possible to care for the home and achieve more freedom for women?

Over the past 60 years, domestic life has changed drastically and rapidly, in part because women rightly now have more autonomy and freedom to work outside the home.

With both parents working, along with a number of other factors, families today have become more unstable. Children's mental health issues are on the rise and declining birthrates affect how families operate.

David Goodhart argues for new policies that support gender equality and stabilize family life in his 2024 book, The Care Dilemma.

Goodhart is a British journalist, commentator, and author. His other books include The Road to Somewhere, The British Dream, and Head, Hand, Heart.