Posted on 09/30/2012 12:27:22 AM PDT by Jyotishi
Divorce rates are far higher among “modern” couples who share the housework than in those where the woman does the lion’s share of the chores, a Norwegian study has found.
The report found the divorce rate among couples who shared housework equally was around 50 per cent higher than among those where the woman did most of the work. Photo: ALAMY
In what appears to be a slap in the face for gender equality, the report found the divorce rate among couples who shared housework equally was around 50 per cent higher than among those where the woman did most of the work.
“What we’ve seen is that sharing equal responsibility for work in the home doesn’t necessarily contribute to contentment,” said Thomas Hansen, co-author of the study entitled “Equality in the Home”.
The lack of correlation between equality at home and quality of life was surprising, the researcher said.
“One would think that break-ups would occur more often in families with less equality at home, but our statistics show the opposite,” he said.
The figures clearly show that “the more a man does in the home, the higher the divorce rate,” he went on.
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One doesn’t want to think through the rest of his hiring options!
Good post savagesusie.
Nah. He is the best man I have ever met. He knew how physical my job was and hired someone from our church to surprise me.
study considerations: 1) bossy woman selection bias; 2) husband has housekeeping skills for escape.
I find this very hard to believe. I’ve always shared tasks with my wife in my home and we’ve been married for 46 years....in spite of navy deployments even. As a matter of fact she has been battling lung cancer for the past 2 years and I’m doing ALL the work. If you love your wife you do what is important and necessary.
Years ago Joan Rivers said she & her husband were lying in bed & she asked him to `talk dirty’ to her. So he said,
“The bedroom, the bathroom, the kitchen, the hall carpet...!”
My wife does the laundry & I’m Mr. Fixit so that’s traditional. But I like to cook & she can outshoot me with the .45 automatic. Oh, well.
“Don’t take it so personally, it is a good idea to have a separate towel just for drying the dishes. Good idea to ask first.”
Whats wrong with letting them dry on the drying rack?
Don’t they dry in the dishwasher? all by themselves with no effort?
hm... well lets see... if I am doing all the work anyway... why the heck put up with the hassle vs I would be lost without them...
Yep, I can see why this would be so.
Failure to divorce does not necessarily indicate a happy marriage.
Men object to having to read the washing instructions for every garment in the dirty clothes. We buy cotton, so that all we have to do is sort by color.
Suits and dress shirts go to the dry cleaners (shirts folded, extra starch). Fortunately we don’t need these as much as we used to.
At my house, I do the laundry and anything with weird washing instructions has to go into a different pile. Otherwise, it is not my fault.
-——anything with weird washing instructions -——
Hmmm..... For those of us who don’t read washing instructions but do manage to segregate out the whites, what would be a weird washing instruction?
It is a real question.
All these studies are bull$shit. They show ONLY a correlation between two things. They can not show causation.
Drawing any conclusion from them is stupid.
“Wash in cold water on delicate cycle - hang dry only” is a weird washing instruction. Indicates that the garment might be destroyed if washed on normal cycle, or dried in a dryer.
“Dry clean only” is also a “weird” washing instruction if it makes it into the dirty clothes bag.
Most of my clothing (that I purchased) let you wash in warm water and tumble dry on medium. Though I use cold water and low, to try to avoid damaging anything that made it through the sorting.
I asked my husband to put up his clothes one day, he picked up his underwear and actually asked where they went?!?!?
He helps if I ask and I usually ask him to vacuum.
Yup, that’s my husband to a tee!
You’ve probably already got it printed off, enlarged, and posted throughout the house I bet!
“Honey, I’d really like to help you clean the toilet but i love you too much to risk our marriage, so I’ll just sit here and watch the game.”
“And that’s the last thing I remember, Doctor.”
Hahahaha
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