The best way to make fathers help out at home? Home economics classes | Amy Westervelt

Home ec classes could not only teach basic housekeeping to everyone but also a real-world approach to family planning

In the 1980s, after conducting a study on working mothers, the time-use expert John Robinson proclaimed that they were spending far less time with their children than previous generations of mothers had. The media exploded with headlines reinforcing the long-held belief that mothers in the workplace would result in the total destruction of the American family.

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Amy Westervelt is the author of Having It All: How America Messed Up Motherhood – and How to Fix It

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