Interesting article about shared parenting
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/magazine/15parenting-t.html?pagewanted...
I read this and found it really interesting. This is something that DH and I struggle with all the time. He's a SAHD and I work from home, yet I still find that I end up doing more of the housework and childcare. The statistics about the female/male division of labor cited by the author are depressing, when you consider that things haven't changed much (in terms of average hours per day for women vs. men doing housework) in the last 90 years. Really interesting when hetero parents are compared to same-sex parents in terms of division of labor.
Anyway, it's a long read but contains some food for thought!
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Dh and I do split things pretty equally, but it's in a different way. He certainly does about 90% of the laundry, while I do about 90% of the vacuuming and sweeping. He does more dishes and cooking, since I have late classes, and I do more cleaning the bathroom.
I always feel like he's doing way more work then I am, but the summer is almost here, and I'll have to take a bigger load since I'm not in school.
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Thanks for posting, that was an interesting article. I have to say that DH and I do share things pretty equally, more so than I ever imagined. With both of us working full-time, it just makes sense to do it that way. We both bathe, feed, and put DS to bed. We both do laundry, dishes, cleaning. I do more cooking, since he just doesn't really know how to, though he does have a few dishes he can make. He does the bulk of the yard work, his schedule is more conveinant for it (and honestly, I just don't like it!). Things are just done by whoever does it first, if laundry needs doing, whoever notices first will do it. If the kid is hungry, whoever is closest will fix him food. I mean, it's not something that we've discussed much at all. It just works that way for us. When we move I do plan on staying home, so things will probably change drastically. But that's okay, that's what I'd like. But if it turns out to be somthing I don't like, then we'll change it to work for us.
I really do feel lucky to have a partner who is on the same page as me.
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