The Modern-Day American Dad: Conservative, Fat, and Unwilling To Let His Woman Stay Home

PR Newswire ^ | June 14 | Euro RSCG Worldwide survey

[Hat-Trick]

I'd better post a /sarcasm tag before I get taken seriously.

[Dog Gone]

You're free to interpret it anyway you like, but my wife has worked for years and been home for years at various periods in our life. My observation is that she is happier, with more friends, and more emotionally balanced when she is working.

I'm sorry that disturbs you.

[mlmr]

It didnt disturb me. I found the way you said it to be odd.

[Nowhere Man]

So, is this survey true? Would you rather your wife go out and work, than have her stay home with the kids? This survey says the men want their women out working at a paying job!!!

Sure, how else can Dads get the time to hoist a few brews and get in some Playstation time?! /sarcasm>

BTW, I have to echo your question on "how many dads do read to their kids?"

[ChevyZ28]

Persoanlly, I would rather have my wife at home. Right now we can't afford for her to stay home with my daughter. I am prepared for when the time comes, to teach my daughter about sex, I am prepared for this because I know I can't count on the school system to be truthful with her.

[summer]

I don't need a Stepford Wife. However, I might consider a test drive when they arrive at the wife lots

LOL...

[FITZ]

Thats 2 out of 3 which probably covers those with more traditional values.

I think it often depends more on what their own mothers did or what their sisters do than actual traditional values. My dad was as conservative as one could get but since his own mother worked and some of his aunts, his sisters also worked, I think he saw that as better even though my mother would only work if it was a job she could do from home.

It just depends on the couple but it's something they should decide on carefully before marriage and be sure they agree on.

[Chgogal]

Interesting. I'm a career person and just recently got the opportunity to take care of my brilliant niece and nephew (I'm very biased...I admit it) while their parents were taking care of family business for two weeks. They live in Florida.

My staff at work game me 72 hrs. before I would cave...well they were wrong. Taking care of the house and the kids was a lot of fun....but I missed the decision-making, the memos, the negotiating, putting out fires, etc.

I had everything super organized and timed to the minute. Pick a child up, do homework, pick the other child up, drop one off at swim practice while the other does homework. Come back, check homework, drop second child off at swim practice. Come back make dinner, pick the children up, have dinner, homework, piano practice etc., etc. By the third day I had everything down pat. By the fourth day I missed work.

I consider myself fortunate. Not everybody gets to see if both sides of the fence. In my case I found both sides green, I just preferred one side more than the other.

[summer]

If I read the survey correctly, 66% of the dads are OK with the wife as homemaker. Thats 2 out of 3 ....

I think it's the opposite in the survey - with 66% wanting the wife to go and work outside the home.

[summer]

LOL...

[summer]

A trophy wife these days has a trophy career.

I couldn't agree with you more.

[FITZ]

I know quite a few men who work two jobs so their wives can stay home --- but they seem kind of resentful because they never spend time with the kids. To me the decision should be based on partly what has to be given up -- if Dad is never there that might not be the best thing either.

[summer]

RE your post #29 - Very good points you bring up.

[summer]

Re your post #31 - ROTFLMAO... but how do you explain how some American dads are so into gardening? I have seen dads almost come to blows if someone happens to step on their newest flower!

[summer]

...making our world more beautiful when they weren't, gardening and canning and cooking, sewing clothes or curtains, rehabbing our house...

Unfortunately, a lot of working women now only have time to watch these images on Home & Garden TV Network, instead of doing all those activites.

[summer]

Guys want stuff,

I think the people who took this survey agree with you, in light of their conclusion that some couples will have to downsize and make do with less (if the wife doesn't want to work).

On the other hand, some salaries are often so pitiful it often doesn't pay for the wife to work outside the home anyway.

[summer]

After all, that's what these Euro-weenies have you believing, isn't it?

LOL... :)

[summer]

BTW, I have to echo your question on "how many dads do read to their kids?"

Thank you! :)

[John Lenin]

I smell a sexual deviant behind this story.