Word: housework
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...people feel as they go about their daily activities, and have found that people are less happy when they are interacting with their children than when they are eating, exercising, shopping or watching television. Indeed, an act of parenting makes most people about as happy as an act of housework. Economists have modeled the impact of many variables on people's overall happiness and have consistently found that children have only a small impact. A small negative impact...
...EXERCISE need not be pulse pounding to be beneficial, say experts. A little gardening or strenuous housework isn't a bad prescription for cardiovascular health...
...more men pitch in? That's a million-dollar question. It's possible that in the younger generations there is movement, although I must say that the more profound movement seems to be toward both sexes doing no housework...
What's so important about housework? If you want to have a democratic society in which people are capable of voting rationally and governing their own fates, you really are imagining a society in which the private home plays a pre-eminent role. But you have a whole generation of people who basically do not know what it is to center their lives in a private home. They don't eat at home. They don't entertain at home. They have no center where they reconnoiter and refine what they think. The economic pressures that the middle class is under...
...your husband about housework? He strongly feels that it's half his. He does all the washing of dishes. We try to divide it on the basis of what we each like...