Few studies have examined how financial relationship issues are associated with cohabiting individuals' risk of union dissolution or marriage. Competing-risks Cox regressions using the cohabiting data in the National Survey of Families and Households (N = 483) found that financial disagreements predicted union dissolution, whereas disagreements…

Examined patterns and correlates of fathers' involvement in household chores and child care in 40 upper-middle class families. Although fathers spent significant time in child care and did perform a number of child-care tasks and household chores, the traditional pattern still held sway to some degree. (Author/ABB)

Critiques the few scholarly reports found on interventions to help dual-earner couples share domestic labor and to increase fathers' temporal involvement in child care. Presents model of forces both constraining and driving equitable participation in domestic labor. Recommends model as basis on which to design, implement, and evaluate family life…

Investigated whether perceived involvement in household work after retirement related to husbands' and wives' retirement adaptation. Data from 611 recent retirees showed positive effect of postretirement housework involvement on women's adjustment. For men, relationship between housework and adaptation was contingent on such factors as health,…

Examined time allotments to household, paid, and unpaid work for farm, rural nonfarm, and urban women. Findings from 2,100 two-parent, two-child families revealed no significant differences among groups in allocation of time to household work. Of three groups, farm women spent more time in unpaid work, and rural nonfarm women devoted most time to…

Questionnaire response from 1,136 single fathers raising children alone revealed that as children grew older, they participated more in housework, and that fathers received more help from teenage daughters than from teenage sons. Fathers' use of outside help and daughters as mother substitutes are discussed. (Author/NRB)

Interviewed 149 retired rural couples to examine conjugal role organization. Found that subjects showed a traditional, gender-differentiated division of household tasks, but that household role segregation decreased significantly after retirement; spouses made majority of decisions jointly; and spouses participated in large number of joint leisure…

Used data from nationally representative sample (n=2,528) to examine division of household labor in first-marriage families, stepfamilies, families headed by divorced mothers, and families headed by never-married mothers. Findings indicated that, across family types and regardless of women's employment status, women performed two to three times…

Based on a sample of 126 families, this study investigated how division of household labor is related to marital satisfaction and caregiving burden among older married parents caring for adult children with intellectual disabilities. For mothers, greater spousal participation in household work and satisfaction with the division of labor were…

The amount of housework help influences the frequency of negative interaction between adult and child, whereas housework importance influences leisure, restrictions imposed on children, and willingness of the caretaker to respond to a child. Findings constitute an argument for increased role-sharing between husbands and wives. (Author)

We identify multiple predictors of five types of father involvement in 167 low- to moderate-income two-parent Mexican American families with fifth-grade children. Analyses show that fathers' egalitarian gender attitudes and mothers' education are associated with higher levels of father involvement. Fathers are more involved in monitoring and…