Since we've done this we're now doing more of the other's stuff when one of us is overloaded, and appreciating more what the other does. Consider, for example, the exhaustive 11-year study of traditional, two-parent families that found 'the influence of fathers is relatively minor' for adolescents. Researcher Frank Furstenberg, a sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania, is the first to admit that such findings 'run in the face of common sense... my own theory,' he adds, 'is that once you have one good parent in place, having another parent doesn't have a huge effect.' From now on,' my friend Jane announced to her husband recently, "I'm going to be available to help you with the housework and cooking any time you feel you need it. Please don't hesitate to ask.'

I have lurked here for a while and thought I'd try and boost my feminist credentials by doing some reading. So i read delusions of gender which I loved, I felt it articulated a lot I what I feel and experience in my life.

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In some ways, this is strange. After all, there is no longer a stigma attached to cohabitation - or so everyone tells us. So why bother 'making it legal' in the first place? And if all the rhetoric is true, and marriage really is just a 'piece of paper', why is it a piece of paper so many people - particularly women - want so badly? By the time I'd sprayed, scoured, polished, rinsed and flushed away my temporary identity crisis, it was time to have dinner. We'd been having dinner together most nights for two years. Like most graduate students, we mostly ate takeaways or grabbed a cheap meal at one of the many cafés around the university. And then we got married. odds of the wife working decreases as the predictor increases. clear use oddsrat4 , clear tabulate inc wifework

Perhaps I am the exception that proves the rule but it doesn't feel Like it in my experience. I don't even recognise my parents or in laws marriages in it as much as she suggests...

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