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As far as you can tell, in your country, does it have to be always one or the other (spouse A spending 20ish hours working and the rest with the child while spo
by krastanov 10y ago
As far as you can tell, in your country, does it have to be always one or the other (spouse A spending 20ish hours working and the rest with the child while spouse B spending 50ish hours working)? Is it plausible for both of them to spend, say, X hours with the kid and 30-40ish hours working? I find the latter much more pleasant arrangement, for those that want to be able to have both careers and children (but this is obviously not a universal opinion).
- killjoywashere 10y agoyes, I think it's safe to say one works more hours away from the home, and one works more hours in the home. Any "perfect balance" is likely to be an unstable equilibrium, and one driver toward a more stable "prestressed' equilibrium is the need to maintain the kids' schedules. One person becomes more in tune with managing that.