What are your thoughts of being a househusband?

no respectable in house hold husband in wife side..

As a girl,actually,i don't want my husband stay at home to take care of the kids.Man should take the responsibility of raising the whole family. I am a traditional girl. I hope I can be a housewife and my husband can do a good performance in his job. What's more, I think women are much more careful and suitable to do the housework and take care of the kids.

Some times you do what you have to. Here in the USA men usually make more money for the same job which irritates most of us women. But if the husband and wife have no issues with the "househusband" why not. Sometimes this is a good way for a husband to see how much work it takes to "run the household" which is good. Unless you have a wife who sits around playing computer games all day, there is work involved with a family.I suppose it could be a hit to a man's ego, but it is a personal choice and no one else. You do what works best for you at the time. Who knows a year from now, the wife may stay home???

I wouldn't have a problem with staying home and doing the cooking and cleaning all day, except for the fact that I can usually do all that stuff in only a couple of hours, so I would be bored after that. I would have to have something to do with the rest of the hours in the day. It wouldn't be that bad if I had some sort of job or work that I could do from home during the time I was not doing housework, cooking or doing laundry. I go crazy sitting around the house on the few days that I do get off work. I can't stand not having something to work on. My wife says I drive her crazy when I am off work, because I am walking around constantly and looking for something to do, or I am back and forth between my home-office and the living room constantly. It wouldn't be too bad if I had a home business or something to go along with the duties of a househusband though. My wife makes more money in her job than I do in mine. I have never had a problem with this, because she has worked hard to get where she is in her job. I basically have two jobs now. I work in a restaurant, and when I am not working there, I work for a friend of mine who owns his own pressure washing company. I also do odd jobs on the side as well when I can find the work. I couldn't see myself not working at all and putting the entire burden of paying our bills and other debts onto her. This is another reason I say that in order for me to be a stay-at-home husband, I would have to have some way to make some money on the side when I was not working on my chores or cooking.

A house husband, that is definitely not ok with me. And I can't take myself to get into such situation. I would rather go out, and find myself whatever job I can work with to feed my family. It is part of my duty to bring the bread home. so my family can living with a full stomach. I won't just sit at home and wait.

i don't mind as long as he takes care of our kids well

I do not like the idea of a househusband. If the man had his own business at home, then it would be different, as it is in your case, but for a man to suddenly decide that he wants to stay at home and look after the children and keep the house and she can make the money, because he is so much neater and the kids obey him is insulting her. And it leads up to employers firing men and hiring women because they can pay them less. So it is wrong.

It is the same here, actually. Here usually a husband and wife also go out to work. But some women will become to be housewives. It is OK. Usually they are at home to take care of their children. As you say, today it is not easy to find a job. So people shall be much more understanding. Good luck and I hope you will find a job soon. I love China

I'm a working wife, and my husband just recently "retired" from his small time construction business because he did not have projects anymore. So now, he is considered a houseband...he cooks and does other chores while we're working in school...the "we" includes my daughter who is a clinical instructor. My son also works full time as a professional webmaster and foots most of the bills...at least I'm not alone footing the bill, and my daughter also chips in. What I'm more concerned is his ego...I know that he is bored staying at home now, especially that we don't have a househelp at the moment, so he does household chores.He's mentioned that he is accepting another small scale construction in another city just to earn even a little for himself, and I gave the go signal because it's really for him....we're not yet that old so he is bored at home, I know....

my wife is a good singer. we used to be together in a band. but when she got pregnant she wanted to be a hands on mom and a stay at home mom and wife. if ever she wanted to go back singing i will give way and be a house husband. i may not be doing the same way as she does around the house but i will do my best. i salute guys who are good house husbands.

Hi Fatherblogger. I recently became a househusband or really a houseboyfriend due to the economy also. I don't really mind staying at home and taking care of the chores and such. I think my girlfriend also kinda likes it since she can now come home and just relax and enjoy her days off from work. I'll admit though, it is starting to get boring. I have been looking for a new job but have had no luck yet. It's nice having a break from going to a day job for a while, but I think I am ready to go back to work.

oh,i can't imagine days i have nothing to do except staying at home do some house chore or take care of the baby,i don't think i can equal to this task,i was born as a man ,and tradition left into me deeply that man should be working outside to support his family,and his wife should try all she can to let the family as good as possible

when u have no option but to sit at home ,u really cant help it. u have to calm ur ego. in your situation specially , i would have had no problems in taking care of the kids while my wife is working outside our home. but seriously speaking it would be very difficult for househusbands. In our culture people look down to househusbands. they want only househusbands to work

in this time of crisis we, as a father should set aside our ego. where we should understand the needs of the family. where here it comes that who have a better income. if it so happen that the wife has a better income we should give way and be a househusband.

I think there are alot of ple whom still cant accept the idea of being a househusband when they should be out working instead.. Even though in the recent years, househusband are becoming now common, but not it's still not widely known as a trend yet.. For myself, i dun see it as a problem being a househusband.. As long as who has the capability to work and earn more money for the family, by all means go ahead.. When a family is concerned, all ego and pride had to be put aside because we are no longer thinking for ourselves, but rather as a whole family which of course, includes the child ^_^

As a woman and a wife, I'm fine with it, so long as the house-husband understands the meaning of housewife (househusband) and the responsibilities and tasks that go with it. I find that many 'househusbands' will take care of the house and kids (fetching to-and-fro school, getting meals ready for them,so forth) only until their wives return from work. After that, it's their wives' jobs to bath, feed and take care of the kids. On weekends, the wives do the housecleaning, grocery shopping, while the househusbands generally laze about. Housewives don't even have the time to breathe (their work is 24/7). Looks like the househusband has a better deal than the housewife!

In our house hold we switched off tending house. Whom ever was being paid the most worked outside and the other stayed home. Many times we both worked outside and had a housekeeper take care of the kids and house. I liked that the best.