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The Heritage Foundation and the Independent Women’s Forum hosted “Breadwinner Moms: Truth Behind the Trend” yesterday to discuss the issues surroudning the rise of high-earning never-married and family-supporting women. Speakers include The Heritage Foundation’s Jennifer Marshall, the Manhattan Institute’s Kay Hymowitz, IWF’s Sabrina Schaeffer and Doublethink’s Cathy Reisentwitz.

Here are top tweets from the event:

1. Thank you .@SL_Schaeffer for calling out liberals and feminists for perpetuating the women as victims storyline #breadwinnermoms

— beth1027 (@beth1027) July 23, 2013

2. Today we neglect individuality & what makes women unique; we need to reevaluate success and the good life.-@MarshallJenA #breadwinnermoms

— Ken McIntyre (@KenMac55) July 23, 2013

3. “The economy is not hostile to women,” says @SL_Schaeffer, and more working women have higher degrees #breadwinnermoms at @heritage

— Tyler O’Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) July 23, 2013

4. “25% of households with children under 18 are led by a single mother who is the sole breadwinner.” @MarshallJenA #BreadwinnerMoms

— Meredith Kelley (@MeredithKelley) July 23, 2013

5. The rise of unmarried parents isn’t something to celebrate. Lets study the impact on children & on men. – @KayHymowitz on #BreadwinnerMoms

— Jackie Anderson (@AnderSayings) July 23, 2013

6. . @KayHymowitz We are seeing increasing assumption that marriage and children are 2 entirely separate phenomenon. #breadwinnermoms

— Ericka Andersen (@ErickaAndersen) July 23, 2013

7. @Heritage Children need to learn the value of family. Married parents who work together are important #breadwinnermoms

— American Blues (@americanblues_) July 23, 2013

8. The more we empower women to do it alone- we are training men they don’t need to step up – @KayHymowitz #breadwinnermoms

— Sondra Clark (@SondraClark) July 23, 2013

9. “We don’t want gender equality at the expense of one gender,” says @iwf‘s @SL_Schaeffer on men’s response to women working #breadwinnermoms

— Tyler O’Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) July 23, 2013

10. @MarshallJenA totally right! Women who have a career still want to get married, we don’t see life as one or the other. #breadwinnermoms

— Jessica Fawson (@Jessicafawson) July 23, 2013

11. http://t.co/RqEdN34XNA @Heritage: @MarshallJenA: We live in an era where traditional life scripts have been broken down #BreadwinnerMoms

— Sarah Grant (@SarahGrant5) July 23, 2013

12. @SL_Schaeffer “there is a hunger from younger women to learn the balance of work, family and life” #breadwinnermoms

— Jessica Fawson (@Jessicafawson) July 23, 2013

13. ‘Bacon is bacon’ doesn’t matter whose bringing it on home @Heritage #BreadwinnerMoms

— Katie Loperfido (@KatieLoperfido) July 23, 2013

14. ‘You can be a stay home caretaker or go out & be a breadwinner- your gender doesn’t matter’ #BreadwinnerMoms @Heritage

— Katie Loperfido (@KatieLoperfido) July 23, 2013

15. @SL_Schaeffer: Rise of breadwinner moms can free men to pursue new opportunities. What’s good for women can be good for men #breadwinnermoms

— Carissa Mulder (@Carissa_ND) July 23, 2013

16. @CathyReisenwitz: We should celebrate that we are at a time when women can step up and have opportunities. #breadwinnermoms

— Katie Watson (@kathrynw5) July 23, 2013