Trad wives

By Elizabeth Prata by Ethan: SportSuburban/Flickr/CC BY 2.0 A few days ago Allie Beth Stuckey spoke in a panel discussion at the Founders Conference. She was asked to explain and give insights on t…

You’re probably familiar with the article published in Housekeeping Monthly in May of 1955 on how to be a good wife. It was called, “The Good Wife’s Guide,” and it detailed all the ways that a wife should act and how best she can be a partner to her husband and a mother to her

The discourse around 'trad wives' (a label applied to women who've happily adopted traditional gender roles and who are now living, baking and child-rearing as they want – or women who are the antithesis of modern feminism, depending on who you ask) has been rumbling on for a while now. But this week, the internet's collective eyes have swivelled firmly towards one so-called trad wife content creator in particular: Hannah Neeleman, better known by her handle of Ballerina Farm. But who or…

Hannah Neeleman, known to her nine million followers as Ballerina Farm, milks cows, gives birth without pain relief and breastfeeds at beauty pageants. Is this an empowering new model of womanhood — or a hammer blow for feminism?

Lara Bazelon’s new book “Ambitious Like a Mother,” explores how working mothers get tasked with a “second shift” — i.e., all the domestic and family work that occurs after paid work ends for the da…

The Life & Age of Woman/Stages of Woman's Life From the Cradle to the Grave. Currier & Ives, 1850 Hand-colored lithograph Indi...

Hannah Neeleman, 34, was an aspiring ballerina studying at Juilliard when she met her now-husband, Daniel, 35, who insisted they get married and start a family prior to her graduation.

"Trad Wives" are women who choose to focus on traditional roles within the household. This includes prioritizing homemaking, raising children, and often homeschooling, while their husbands are the primary breadwinners.

When you are standing in the kitchen at Ballerina Farm, way out in the western wilds of Utah, beneath the big skies and against the brutal winters and the abundant summers, it is almost impossible to imagine that there are millions of people watching online. Many miles away, people are scrolling their way through videos of the family’s toddlers running around in muddy linen dresses, rodeo horses galloping through the fields or butter being churned. Earlier in the summer, I spent the day with

We all know that kids don’t understand a lot about life. There’s so much to learn as they grow and most of the time they will never really understand how…