[LizardQueen]

Tough to do anything on this list when he gets home from work before the wife.

LQ

[Fitzcarraldo]

Tough to do anything on this list when he gets home from work before the wife.

Grounds for divorce, coming in after the Husband. Every wife knows how to limit her bridge party/garden club activities to leave plenty of time for the essentials.

[Trinity_Tx]

"Tough to do anything on this list when he gets home from work before the wife."

Excellent point. I would say that it's even too much to ask if she comes home before he does, if she's been working all day as well.

I'm all for most of the suggestions, but I think wives working outside the home is the biggest culprit in the breakdown of the traditional (and IMHO appropriate) roles.

Who's to blame is hard to answer - like the chicken/egg thing. But both men and women have dropped the ball, neither fulfilling their proper roles. Who pays? Men, women, and most of all, the children.