How much do dads need to help at home? (via Mercator)
Dr Sigle-Rushton focused on 3,500 couples who had stayed together for five years after the birth of their first child (around 20 per cent divorced by the time the child was 16) and looked at the fathers’ participation in housework, shopping and childcare during one week, as reported by their wives in 1975.The research found, relative to families where women are homemakers and men do little housework and childcare, the risk of divorce is 97% higher when the mother works outside the home and her husband makes a minimal contribution to housework and childcare. However there is no increased risk of divorce when the mother works and her husband’s contribution to housework and childcare is at the highest level. The lowest-risk situation is one where the mother does not work and the father gets involved in the highest level of housework and childcare, the study showed.
In the end when a husband does housework, beyond anything it shows appreciation. It's called being nice. As a man you're an adult and if you were single, once in while you would have to cook dinner and clean up after yourself. Your wife isn't a replacement for your mother. It should be noted, obviously that this involvement of participating in household chores can not be done if the father lives in a separate residence.
From Facebook "It's not "babysitting" if your wife left you at home with your OWN kids!", and that sums it up in the differences in an appreciative marriage and a non-appreciative marriage. In about two months, it has over 400,000 people that liked it.
Here's a dad who seems to be having a lot of fun in the kitchen: Jim's Pancakes.
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