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More men are rolling up their sleeves and pitching in when it comes to taking full-time care of the house and kids. It’s a shift in traditional gender roles that allows women to work out of the house minus the worry about what’s for dinner and who’s going to pick the kids up after school, but also gives men a chance to opt out of the rat race and sink their teeth into the salty-sweet biscuit that is domestic drudgery.
Just how many dads are playing June Cleaver right now? More than you might think. According to a recent article in the Globe and Mail, stay-at-home-dads are steadily increasing in numbers. Currently, Statistics Canada claims there are about 60,000 stay-at-home dads in Canada—a number that has nearly tripled in the past three decades.
The reasons for this increase are variable, with some attributing it to the fact that many middle-aged men lost their jobs in the wake of the recession.
Leith’s day starts at 6.30 a.m. and ends at 10 p.m. Within those roughly 16 hours he’s feeding, coaxing, coddling, running errands, driving and cleaning—this guy is doing a lot of cleaning. One thing he doesn’t have time for: himself.
Any of this ringing any bells?
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