Shared Earning/shared Parenting Marriage
Today many men and women engage in Shared Earning/Shared Parenting Marriage where they do not follow archetypal or steretoyped "motherhood" and "fatherhood" roles and instead both earn money and both do the unpaid work of parenting and childcare.
Read more about this topic: Child Rearing, Views On Parental Roles and Responsibilities in The United States
Famous quotes containing the words shared, earning, parenting and/or marriage:
“We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the periods official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was mans fate.”
—Joan Didion (b. 1935)
“I ignore all the doomsaying nonsense. Im in a business where the odds of ever earning a living are a zillion to one, so I know it can be done. I know the impossible can become possible.”
—Marcia Wallace (b. 1942)
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—Lawrence Balter (20th century)
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—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)