By Sarah Womack
London


Children benefit from seeing their fathers help around the house and women find men more attractive if they pick up a duster, researchers have found.

A study says children who do their share of cleaning with their fathers are likely to be better adjusted and more socially aware because they learn "democratic values" at an early age.

Researchers at the University of California studied the results of a national survey of 3563 children and their parents.

Unsurprisingly, men did less housework than women, but the study found they were taking on tasks such as shopping and picking up children from school as well as some cooking and cleaning.

Men also spent more time around their children than in previous generations - about three hours on a Saturday or Sunday.

University of California sociologist Scott Coltrane, who led the research, said: "When men perform domestic service for others, it teaches children co-operation and democratic family values."

Dr John Gottman, of the University of Washington in Seattle, said if men shared the tasks, women felt less stressed about balancing the demands of work and home. They also saw their partner's assistance as a sign of love and therefore felt more sexually attracted to them.


In Britain, however, therapists claim to have identified a new condition, named Atlas Syndrome - after the Greek god who supported the sky on his shoulders - which afflicts men who hold down demanding jobs while trying to be perfect parents.

The term was coined by Dr Tim Cantopher, a medical director at Priory Clinic, the hospital favoured by celebrities needing treatment for addictions.

He said it struck men who were trying to "work the unworkable", adding: "It's a modern condition caused by social and political changes affecting the role of men."

Jack O'Sullivan, co-founder of Fathers Direct and editor of Dad magazine, said this generation of fathers was living out a huge social change. "They're working just as hard but at the same time they're committed to doing a great deal more at home so they are inevitably stressed out."

- Telegraph

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I have long said I find there is nothing sexier in this world then a naked man.......................................bent over.............................................. .................................scrubbing the bathtub

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Quick!!!!.........For God's sake!!!!!!! Will someone please get me a vacuum cleaner and a scrub brush?!?!?!?

Aw, Lil, why didn't you just say you like to see the bottoms ....



























of their feet.

I am the only one that cleans at my house...damn I knew I was a sexy bitch.

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Will someone please shout this study from the rooftops? Cause I cook, clean, iron and do laundry and as far as I can tell, all I end up with is dirty dishes, footprints on my freshly mopped floor, burns on my hands & pink underwear!

Suddenly I don't feel so sexy. ha ha

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We were born involved in one another.

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Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.

I LOVE a man who can clean...I've just never met one.

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osuche

my husband can clean so well, I never met one until i met my husband

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In other countries like Far East Asia women are still held in LOWER esteem BUT in China, it’s a different story. Chinese women are much more aggressive and outspoken and held in Higher esteem.” I love Communist that provides males and females Equality and WOMEN’S Rights in China.

Not much on cooking or laundry (although I've done both), but I do clean around the house.

Pardon my bluntness but I think this might relate to another thread. Remember nice guys? Yep, those of us who will cook, clean and pitch in and do our parts are usually in the same group who are taken for granted and left for those bad boys who spend more time buffing up than worrying with domestic affairs. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not tossing rocks. I'm just offering my observation. Hopefully there are some women who will appreciate a guy who'll do his part. LOL Of course I still have to conquer the first response to my looks. A 45 yr old man with shoulder length hair doesn't make a first impression that coincides with a domesticated beast.

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BigBear57...long hair can be sexy. And I DO appreciate a nice guy...

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I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them. ~ Jay McInerney

Osuche Darlin, which gym in Ohio? :-p

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Any gym will do...or exercise outside of the gym.




I LOVE it when a guy calls me darlin'

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Life is too short not to love and be loved....preferably multiple times in one night.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them. ~ Jay McInerney

It's sooooo true! If you don't do housework, I'm not happy. Do some housework, dammit!

Well, well, It's about time they felt what we go through every day trying to be Mrs. Atlas

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