Well, for a sea change, you’re going to need seamen.
Maybe we shouldn't be conditioning these researchers so much....
I got’s to get me a sugarmommy.
What would be a nice change now (at least for me) would be a contribution of actually being fit for motherhood from a potential spouse. Something that is becoming exceedingly rare, at least up here in lefty-land.
I come from the “I’ll bring home the bacon. She’ll cook it” tradition.
The ONLY thing the feminist movement ever did was make it expected that a woman be the 50’s housewife AND have a good-paying full-time job. ugh!
(can everyone tell that I have a ton of housework to do when I get home?) ;)
I don't think my husband or my daughter's boyfriend got that memo. (A week ago my daughter offered to work to provide for the both of them while he went to medical school. He's still pouting like a kicked puppy. "There is NO WAY you're going to provide for ME!")
Unfortunately, my wife knows of many women whose husbands EXPECTED them to go back to work after having babies. In my opinion, those are not real men.
Yeah, I'm sure it was a scientifically representative population sample, too.
Does this mean men can now get alimony?
I don’t think this is all that new in my case at least. I worked so the first/late Mrs. Redangus could finish college and then she returned the favor. This was back in the early 70’s. We both had jobs during our life together. Sometimes she made more sometimes I did. We split the housework. She did most of the cleaning, while I did all the cooking. We both did laundry, animal care(dogs, cats, horses) and yard work. It worked out pretty well. The present Mrs. Redangus would agree she has it pretty good. She is retired and I am almost (do a little contract work). I still do almost all the cooking, though she is a great cook. Whoever cooks the other cleans up. I wash, she folds on the clothes. we share pool and yard duties with me doing the heavy lifting and her doing the finishing work. And last, but not least because I get in bed earlier, in the winter I lay on her side to warm the bed for her (this is a little something carried over from the first Mrs. Redangus). Did I say I came from a family of women, a mother (and dad) and two sisters and married into a family of women the first time. I guess that is why I am so in touch with my feminine side:).
For the record I have also built a lot of fence in my life, split a lot of wood, work on cars, fish and I’m a pretty good shot with 9MM and a 20 guage. Didn’t want anyone to get the impression I was metrosexual or anything:).
Married in 1973, been housewife since 1978, and a mom since 1981. Have not worked, for paycheck, since then. Have done a lot of volunteer work at the school, at election time at Repulican HQ, taught computers to adults at the local college. But haven’t been gainfully employed since 1978. I stay home, do the laundry, cooking, dishes, ironing, cleaning, etc. Pretty much DONNA REED! My mother always worked full time and all of my high school friends moms worked full time, one even owned her own cafe... one owned her own beauty shop. But they all had to work full time. My husband WANTED me to stay home. I enjoy it!
The researchers failed to take into account the politcal correctness factor. I suspect if those surveyed were honest with both the researchers and themselves that percentage would be a lot higher.