This would be, the WORST CASE SCENARIO, certainly NOT the case of what the article talks about…
Reporting, from Tokyo, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
“Ikumen” is the top ten fashionable words of phrases of 2010, it’s synonymous with what’s called, “a new age, good man” in Chinese; why would these men, who’d chosen to stay at home to help raise the children have gotten so much rant, primarily because in Japan, the mothers are the ones, responsible, for ALL the household chores, as well as raising their young, a lot of women were, forced out of the workforce, causing the decline of highly educated women, not being employed, in the developed nations in the world.
The founder of Facebook, Zuckerberg, awhile ago, announced that he’ll be taking his paternity leave for two months, and this had gotten the attention of the world. Two years ago, after the birth of Eikei Suzuki’s child, he’d taken a month of paternity leave, it’d made his image better, he’d told, during this time “it’d allowed me to understand, the importance of spending time with the family”, he’d called out to other fathers, to do the same.
Suzuki’s wife, Takeda was once, a water ballet competitor at the Olympic level, and after she’d retired, she’d still performed from time to time, she said, that after men had gotten involved firsthand into helping to raise the young, they’d gained a better understanding of the pressures that women had to face, and thus, becoming, more empathetic and more willing to help out.
The Japanese government did a survey for families with children under six years of age in 2013, that the Japanese fathers, on average, spends just thirty-nine minutes with their children, and the total time for taking care of other household chores was one-hour-seven minutes; and the mothers spends over three hours a day, caring for the children, and “close to EIGHT hours’’ on the household chores.
this, would be more like it…
Suzuki pointed out, he’d heard, that a lot of fathers are afraid of taking paternity leave, because of the trend in the office, “So that, is why I’m taking the lead”. But, the total hours of his paternity leave is only “three-and-a-half-days”.
The mothers in Japan also told, that they’d hoped, that their husbands would share the responsibilities of helping to raise the young regularly, that they should NOT just, play with the children, when they’re in a good mood.
And so, paternity leave is now, the “IT” thing, because caring for, raising the young, is NO LONGER JUST our (women’s) responsibilities anymore, besides, we need you, to HELP out around the house, while we’re, taking CARE of the babies, especially during those first few months after birth, and, it surely would be nice, to have EVERY man onboard on this, but, only a MINORITY of population of men are willing, to step down on their high pedestal, to help us out, after all, raising the young is NOT JUST our J-O-B-S, they’re HALF as yours, as HALF of ours too you know???
a good househusband we have over here…
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