“Dads who don a pinny and muck in with the housework are less likely to get divorced than those who leave it to the missus.” That’s the story in the Mirror today, also in Times, Telegraph, Independent.
This research at the London School of Economics confirms the same findings in USA and Scandinavia.
The issue is not whether mothers work, it is how fathers adapt to this by changing the way they operate too. The problem is that so much is stacked up against parents sharing – assumptions of employers and mistaken beliefs about what mothers and fathers “should” do and should feel bad about if they don’t.
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