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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I'm a woman and agree with this--a lot of childcare is menial, meaning that you don't need a lot of skill to do it. (The education these women have was not to prepare them to be good mothers, and very very few parents have education and training in childhood development or early childhood ed.)

Regarding housekeeping--not many people enjoy vacuuming or scrubbing toilets. If both parents work, you can justify/afford to outsource the parts you don't want to do, or at least have a legitimate basis for dividing them up (e.g., we're [i]both[/i] tired). [b]If one person is home all day....very easy to see how the other person would expect them to pick up that slack. If I worked and my husband stayed home, I would be really annoyed if the house wasn't clean, laundry wasn't done, etc.,[/b] and even more annoyed if he'd spent the day decorating or baking or volunteering--doing fun things he enjoys, but not the hard work, which he would expect to share with me (after I'd been working hard all day). I'd prefer more stress and more mess (and, to be fair, more money) to a situation where we resent each other rather than feel "we're in this together."[/quote]
You might have the right to be annoyed if you have school-aged children, but if children are young and at home all day, the spouse is not just sitting around doing nothing -  s/he has hands full all day long. [/quote]

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