Today, many salaried workers have a five-day work week. Both younger and older salaried workers spend more time at home. Some have become more helpful around the house, acquiring practical, hands-on experience doing a little housework. And some are showing greater interest in the life of their local community.
Fathers have more time to spend with the children during the year and on vacations.
A few wish they could spend even more time with their children. However, school-aged children are busy too. Many wives are happy to have their husbands home more. They feel more and more strongly, as do their husbands, that the core of the marriage is the relationship between the husband and the wife. They believe that the relationship between them and their husbands should be based more on trust and equality, a relationship in which they can carry on a two-way dialogue about family matters and things in general.