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What is the tradition that you always probably think of from the Beaver Cleaver era, where home lives were seemingly perfect, almost never dysfunctional, and the guy brought home the bread while the woman was responsible for cooking, cleaning and child rearing. Very few “traditional” families exist these days, and a new role has been formed for both men and women when it comes to both financial responsibilities in the family, and how even the housework and yardwork is divied up between the two.

It used to be the traditional thought that men went out and worked all day to make money for the family to live on, while the woman stayed at home and did the laundry, scrubbed floors and took care of the kids if they had any. As a matter of fact, it was uncommon for women to be in the workforce, and most women were stay at home moms.

These days, it’s harder for women to be stay at home moms, since the financial burdens are shifting greatly to include the women more and more in the financial equation of a family’s success when it comes to the economics of the family unit.

We have more and more dual income homes now - and many mothers have even taken on the role of being the primary bread winner in lots of marriages and relationships, which was very unusual back in the days where they primarily only were employed to do more menial jobs such as secretaries and mill workers.

I talk to more and more families now that have the mother working full time and the man as well, and they are hopefully also splitting the chores at home that need daily attention as well. Speaking of, this has caused tension in many relationships as well according to relationship experts, who say that women feel now they are doing double duty. As a woman though, I do suppose that I’m a bit biased!