At the age of 12, instead of complaining about having to help with the housework, he developed a remote-controlled car that could mop and vacuum.

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Interestingly, the researchers found that both men and women report the highest satisfaction with the division of housework when the housework is divided equally, and the lowest when they themselves do most of the work.

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It's important to reassess your happiness and satisfaction with the level of housework, time spent together and what amount of time you each spend at work and home.

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Need some help in the home with housework or bathing?

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Since 1965, fathers have nearly tripled the time they spend with children and more than doubled the time they spend doing housework.

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It said drowning of young children mostly took place in rural areas during the day when mothers were busy with housework or other chores.

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She and her colleagues have done work suggesting that the division of housework doesn't align with an "exchange model" where chores are traded for a share of income, for example, or sex.

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For instance, 83% of the copreneurial wives were entirely in charge of general housework, compared with 49% of wives with their own careers.

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There were the husbands who wouldn't do housework but who would put together the cribs, carriers, baby gyms and high tech toys with the expertise only a Y chromosome provides.

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After all, if you're buying a robovac because you hate housework, you might as well be equipped with a remote so you don't have to leave the couch.

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