Traditional Male-Female Roles

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Re: Traditional Male-Female Roles

@Sehrysh

Not a new topic, but maybe a different way to discuss it:

Ladies: would you NOT want to cook and clean and make your house a home for your husband and children?

Men: would you NOT want to go out and make a living for your wife and children and be responsible for providing food and shelter for the family?

Despite how enlightened and advanced we are as a society and how blurry traditional roles have become, I personally hold with the traditional division of labour, albeit with compromises on both sides and each partner helping the other out where and how needed. Does that make me backwards or too traditional?

No, it doesn’t make you backward or too traditional. My vote usually tends to go towards efficiency, and I’m assuming that in most homes the traditional demarcation of roles is still usually the most efficient.

I’m interested to hear what the guys have to say about being stay at home dads. I know of two cases. In the first, the guy really took to it and now his wife wants him to go back to work, but he’s not interested. The second case ended in divorce. The interesting thing there was that guy used to be the one saying things like ‘oh, you women have it lucky. Obviously if us men had the option we would want to stay at home with our kids.’