Word: househusbands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These familar symptoms of "housewife syndrome" have been described by countless bored and depressed women. The speaker, however, is burly, bearded Sheldon Schacter of Carmel Valley, Calif., who gave up a $13,000-a-year job as a psychiatric social worker to become a househusband. Schacter, 29, cares for his son Jason and weilds a mean spatula and dry mop while his wife Sandy goes off to teach. Though feminists have long argued that such role reversals are often desirable, how many men have actually agreed to swap the daily commuter train for domesticity? Report TIME correspondents nationwide: a very...
...stand cleaning," admits Author Robert Kimmel Smith, 42, who writes in his Brooklyn, N.Y., home and cares for his children while his wife Claire works full time as a literary agent. Schacter enlivens his vacuuming chores by plugging in a set of stereo headphones. Cincinnati Househusband Ken Onaitis, 26, slaves over a hot stove and grew angry at first when his wife arrived home late for dinner. Says he: "Well, you work two hours over something...
...Onaitis admits that "it was quite a revelation to find out what a burden a man carries, knowing he has to pay the family bills for the rest of his life." Some couples have found that the role reversals strengthened their marriages as well as father-son bonds. Moreover Househusband Smith anticipates that Roger, 6, will grow up without the "machismo hangups that afflict many men." Says Smith: "Roger is used to seeing me cook and having me be 'Daddy-Mommy...
...doubt, kept a lover on the side. When he had remonstrated-once-she had told him that as the breadwinner, she was entitled to call the tune. She had gone on to suggest that his job was irrelevant: Why didn't he stay at home and become a househusband...