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“One parent as the homemaker” — this looks very unfair in 2022.
by atemerev 4y ago
“One parent as the homemaker” — this looks very unfair in 2022.
- alexanderchr 4y agoUnfair to who?
- dvsfish 4y agohow so?
- Tade0 4y agoIIRC this appears to still be the standard in e.g. Switzerland. Expensive (2-3k CHF per month) daycare only incentives this further.
- atemerev 4y agoI live in Switzerland. It is “standard” in some of the conservative German-speaking cantons (though things are changing even there), but not here in Geneva. Domestic labor is hard and thankless. It is very unfair to pile it up on a single person (in nearly every case a woman). Both spouses need to do their fair share.
- kaba0 4y agoIf only one of them earns a salary, and it is agreed upon by both, why is it unfair? That’s a perfectly valid choice - not everyone is a careerist and if one salary is enough for the family it is a really healthy choice. This “life is about work mentality” is honestly, harmful.
- atemerev 4y agoDoing chores at home is no less hard than working at office, and much more thankless activity. Both me and my wife much prefer to do anything else than domestic labor, including actual work. So, it is quite unfair to ask only one of us to do all this.