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Survey: Who clips their nails?

by Katrina on June 14, 2010

"Put Parenting in the Hands of Fate!"Studies show today’s fathers are doing significantly more child care and housework than their fathers did.

Here’s my question: Are these dads just folding more laundry, or are they also taking responsibility for the complicated logistics of family life?

And here’s my other question: Do heterosexual couples divide up chores differently than gay and lesbian couples? A friend of mine, one of two moms raising a child together, suggested to me that straight couples might have something to learn from same-sex couples about egalitarian parenting. Is this true?

So I put together a short survey to find out who does some of the more detail-oriented stuff. It should take about five minutes to complete. I will publish the results in about two weeks or as soon as I have a good number of responses.

How are these responsibilities divided up in your house? Take the survey now.

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Stefanie

Ooh – very interesting. I can’t wait to see the results!

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Gabby

Can we give Dad’s a survey about the kid related jobs they think they do?

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Katrina

I’m working on that one…

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Elizabeth

I filled out the survey.

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Leanne

I wrote this in the survey — from all of the parent-couples that I know, it seems that equal working fulltime outside the home lends to higher chance of equal division of child/house responsibilities, regardless of being a queer couple or straight couple. I see much more lack of equal division in couples where one is stayathome parent and one is fulltime working parent. I haven’t seen anything related to being a queer couple or a straight couple when it comes to household and child responsibilities — it seems more related to equality of working-time and home-time.

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Katrina

Thank you! So far I’ve had a great response to the survey and can’t wait to dig into the detailed responses. Still don’t have many responses from same-sex couples so please forward if you know anyone who might be interested. I’m planning to keep it open for another week or so.

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Leanne

Done! Passed it on!

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Katrina

Yay! Thanks, Leanne.

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