Sociologist finds stay-at-home dads' experiences bring mutual understanding to couples
Thursday, July 9, 2015 - 08:30
in Psychology & Sociology
UWM sociologist Noelle Chesley conducted a study during the financial crisis of 2008 on the family experience of stay-at-home fathers by looking at families that had changed their work-parenting arrangements. Either two working parents morphed into a female breadwinner and a stay-at-home dad, or a mom who previously stayed at home went to work while the father, the previous breadwinner, stayed at home with the children after losing a job.