Re:Remote work may have fueled a baby boom among U.S. women
by jimbokun on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @02:42PM
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You bounce back and forth between a maximalist, fundamentalist position on this topic and one that's more moderate and common sense.
> and both partners have equal responsibilities inside the home (kids, cooking, cleaning, bill paying, whatever)
So each task has to be split completely equally between each partner, to the hour? To the minute?
Can one spouse have a full time 40 hour / week job and the other a part time 20 hour / week job?
What about a high paying high stress 60 hour / week job and a 40 hour / week job?
Are you going to dictate the morally acceptable parameters of everyones relationship?
> That person needs a social outlet, a part-time job, something, whether they realize it or not.
This is a much less extreme position and I think hard to disagree with. I think the mythical era of the Homemaking Wife and Mother of the 1950s, the wives staying at home still had a lot of social outlets and interactions with people than they do today. Which speaks to the endemic isolation of our current culture.
> and both partners have equal responsibilities inside the home (kids, cooking, cleaning, bill paying, whatever)
So each task has to be split completely equally between each partner, to the hour? To the minute?
Can one spouse have a full time 40 hour / week job and the other a part time 20 hour / week job?
What about a high paying high stress 60 hour / week job and a 40 hour / week job?
Are you going to dictate the morally acceptable parameters of everyones relationship?
> That person needs a social outlet, a part-time job, something, whether they realize it or not.
This is a much less extreme position and I think hard to disagree with. I think the mythical era of the Homemaking Wife and Mother of the 1950s, the wives staying at home still had a lot of social outlets and interactions with people than they do today. Which speaks to the endemic isolation of our current culture.