Your Mom's Your Mom for Life
Big surprise. Who doesn’t know this? But a new study has found that when a new baby comes into a dual-income, highly educated family, the mom does the majority of the extra work. Although research discovered that neither parent did as much, on average, as they thought – four hours – moms still did two hours while dads, 40 minutes, a day. This is not to disparage dads. My husband got up with the baby at night and rocked him and fed him (diapers, not so much). “The birth of the child dramatically changed the division of labor in these couples,” says Jill Yavorsky, co-author of the study and doctoral student in sociology at Ohio State, at newswise.com. “What was once a relatively even division of household work no longer looked that way.” I think that’s because we start feeling a whole different way once we have a baby. It’s like that child is still inside you and attached to your organs. Sounds kind of silly, I know. But h...