Would you marry a stay at home dad?

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www.telegraph.co.uk/men/relationships/fatherhood/11122773/Society-still-doesnt-like-the-idea-of-stay-at-home-dads.html

''According to researchers at the Lancaster University Management School, 82% of men who work full time, would like to spend more time with their children.''

''Public support for dads staying at home is close to zero; only 5% of us think dads should work part-time and the vast majority of us (73%) say dads should work full time.

So when a father decides to work part time, he is not just transgressing the social norms, he’s also jeapordising his ability to fulfill the masculine role of protector and provider. This may seem like an outdated concept, but research suggests that women all over the world still look for these qualities in a mate and are more likely than men to favour traits related to resources, like ambition, industriousness and earning capacity.''

Very interesting since there are 10 times more stay at home mums than dads in the UK, not to mention that many of the men's situations are circumstantial and the wife is not exactly happy. Just googling ''mumsnet breadwinner'' will bring up pretty much nothing but threads started by women who resent being the breadwinner. So how many women would love working FT while the husband stays at home or maybe does a little freelance on the side for a few quid a week?

I know several families with SAHD, perhaps because I used to work in a company with many well paid women who were often the main breadwinner. Our best friends who we have known for 30 years chose for the dad to SAH. The wife was the higher earner and the husband one of those blokes who without being the slightest bit girly in himself gets on really well with women (and men) without seeming the slightest bit threatening to other husbands. So he has been able to integrate into SAH social life and it has worked really well.

They don't, check the link above. Women make more money than men for almost their entire fertile life. If anything, there should be more SAHD's if that theory was correct. Of course, this is assuming women indiscriminately marry men of all incomes.

The link doesn't say what the OP thinks it does.

Sorry, he's posted a lot on FWR, and doesn't seem to be posting in good faith.

Also, people on MN live in the real world did you seriously think we didn't? And who the hell are you calling middle class?

I work full time and my DP is a SAHP, he does everything from cleaning to cooking and looking after our 3 kids, if I'm completely honest he does a damn better job than I would and I love my job and earn more than him so it makes sense. It works perfectly for us but everyone is different