What are your thoughts of being a househusband?

As a girl,actually,i don't want my husband stay at home to take care of the kids.Man should take the responsibility of raising the whole family. I am a traditional girl. I hope I can be a housewife and my husband can do a good performance in his job. What's more, I think women are much more careful and suitable to do the housework and take care of the kids.

As the wife of a man who works two jobs I would be alright with him being the househusband if I could make as much money as he does. His main job is the one that provides most of our income while his second one provides additional income but also is a job he loves. If I were to ever get a job that would support us I would love for him to be home so he can get some projects completed around the house.
This situation can work as long as both partners are alright with the arrangement.

I think there are alot of ple whom still cant accept the idea of being a househusband when they should be out working instead.. Even though in the recent years, househusband are becoming now common, but not it's still not widely known as a trend yet..

For myself, i dun see it as a problem being a househusband.. As long as who has the capability to work and earn more money for the family, by all means go ahead.. When a family is concerned, all ego and pride had to be put aside because we are no longer thinking for ourselves, but rather as a whole family which of course, includes the child^_^

In our house hold we switched off tending house. Whom ever was being paid the most
worked outside and the other stayed home. Many times we both worked outside and had a housekeeper take care of the kids and house. I liked that the best.

As a woman and a wife, I'm fine with it, so long as the house-husband understands the meaning of housewife (househusband) and the responsibilities and tasks that go with it. I find that many 'househusbands' will take care of the house and kids (fetching to-and-fro school, getting meals ready for them,so forth) only until their wives return from work. After that, it's their wives' jobs to bath, feed and take care of the kids. On weekends, the wives do the housecleaning, grocery shopping, while the househusbands generally laze about. Housewives don't even have the time to breathe (their work is 24/7). Looks like the househusband has a better deal than the housewife!

I'm a working wife, and my husband just recently "retired" from his small time construction business because he did not have projects anymore. So now, he is considered a houseband...he cooks and does other chores while we're working in school...the "we" includes my daughter who is a clinical instructor. My son also works full time as a professional webmaster and foots most of the bills...at least I'm not alone footing the bill, and my daughter also chips in. What I'm more concerned is his ego...I know that he is bored staying at home now, especially that we don't have a househelp at the moment, so he does household chores.He's mentioned that he is accepting another small scale construction in another city just to earn even a little for himself, and I gave the go signal because it's really for him....we're not yet that old so he is bored at home, I know....

It is the same here, actually. Here usually a husband and wife also go out to work. But some women will become to be housewives. It is OK. Usually they are at home to take care of their children. As you say, today it is not easy to find a job. So people shall be much more understanding. Good luck and I hope you will find a job soon.

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no respectable in house hold husband in wife side..

oh,i can't imagine days i have nothing to do except staying at home do some house chore or take care of the baby,i don't think i can equal to this task,i was born as a man,and tradition left into me deeply that man should be working outside to support his family,and his wife should try all she can to let the family as good as possible

when u have no option but to sit at home,u really cant help it. u have to calm ur ego. in your situation specially, i would have had no problems in taking care of the kids while my wife is working outside our home.
but seriously speaking it would be very difficult for househusbands. In our culture people look down to househusbands. they want only househusbands to work