Sharing Work Load at Home Increases A Couple's Fertility - 07/13/2007
Findings presented at a social policy conference in Sydney, Australia this week indicate that women who do the majority of housework have a lower chance of having more than one child, while couples who share the duties of unpaid domestic work at home are more likely to have a second child together.
Researchers at the University of New South Wales' Social Policy Research Centre evaluated four years of data from a Household, Income and Labor survey. Preliminary findings suggested a link between fertility, domestic work and relationship breakdown.
The study found that as women's share of household chores increased, her chance of having multiple children decreased ten-fold. In addition, for every extra hour of housework men did, the risk of divorce fell by 51%.
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