Parents do £70k of unpaid work in the home

[1Wanda1]

From an article in The Times today (have pasted a few bits as most people won't be able to read the article if I link it. This might be of interest to the many MNers whose partners seem to think they sit around doing nothing all day!

A separate study found British parents undertake £70,768 of unpaid work a year around the house and running around for the children.

It found that the average parent spends more than 100 hours a week juggling household tasks, from cooking and cleaning to ferrying children around and helping with their homework.

Parents were spending 29 hours a week cooking, preparing and serving food and drinks, ten hours playing with the children, the same amount of time driving on the school run, to activities, clubs and playdates, and nine hours giving advice.

@ZeldaWillTellYourFortune
I was agreeing with the OP that the unpaid work within a family (which still largely falls on women whether they work outside the house as well or not) is not valued by society. A monetary value is one way of looking at it.
I was also posting (similarly) about Carers Allowance. I think those in receipt of that are (also) allowed to say whatever they wish.

Excellent point

Hurrah!! Someone who gets it! 🙌 Not sure why this has gone over so many other posters heads!! 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Still have plenty of time to post on Mumsnet thought don’t we? 🤣

Next they’ll be saying it’s work looking after and doing anything for yourself

So you don’t sleep then? Seeing as 100hours is essentially four days, or you sleep for a maximum of 4.5 hours per night.