It’s surely a worthy goal. Equal parenting generally makes for happier and more harmonious relationships. Having two parents involved in caregiving leaves more time for play, with known benefits for the child’s mental, emotional and physical development.
Working from home means my computer and my phone are effectively another limb. With every sound my phone makes, I react, probably a lot quicker than when my daughter is competing for my attention.
The birth rate in England and Wales is now the lowest it has ever been since records began. Only 11 babies were born for every 1,000 people in 2018, with 657,076 born overall. To put this in perspective, 957,782 babies were born in 1920 despite the overall population being 22m fewer than it is today.
A husband in China has regained his conscious from a five-year coma after his partner nursed him devotedly more than 20 hours a day for nearly 2,000 days. Li Zhihua, from Xiangyang in Hubei Province, sustained serious brain injuries in a traffic accident in 2013. His wife became his sole carer afterwards and she slept only two to three hours a day in order to clean, feed and talk to him.
“Pencils, pens, erasers,” is what Betty Sujaya Ice said she typically buys in bulk when she goes back to school shopping for her children. There are always familiar sights and sounds of the back to school season.
More than 50 million Americans are juggling jobs and child-rearing — and finding that hard to do. According to a 2015 study by Pew Research Center, 65 percent of working parents with college degrees in the US reported that it was “somewhat difficult” or “very difficult”.