My Uncle is 34, doesn't work but is a stay at home dad, good or bad?

I have never been a fan of parents who simply shove their young kids into day-care everyday while they work,

My uncle is 34 and has actually never had a proper paid job apart from some volunteer work he did in the past, he drives and has his own car so that will open up job aspects for him I guess if he wanted to find a job.

Anyway he has a 3 year old son and he his girlfriend works as a midwife, she is the main source of income right now as she works and he doesn't, however he does all the housework, takes the baby out, does the shopping when she can't.


is my Uncle a complete layabout or is he actually doing some good whilst being unemployed?

to some maybe, but not me. If I worked at my partner didn't then I wouldn't expect to have to shop and clean on my days off, likewise if I was at home with a child all day and my other half was out working I'd make damn sure he didn't have to know where the hoover was or how to work the washing machine!

What a dick, he should be out there hunting buffalo and defending his offspring and wife from nearby men, whilst his wife forages in the nearby woods for berries and fetches jugs of water from the river.

Apparently men who are stay at home dads have small balls (This is actually a fact, less testosterone, it was on bbc news a few weeks ago)

You do know that being a housewife / househusband is a full time job, right? You are aware that looking after a young child is tiring and challenging, right?

So when does the stay-at-home parent get any shred of time off then?

If you're out working 8 hours a day / 5 days a week, you get to come home on an evening and chill out, and do whatever you want on a weekend...
but the stay-at-home-parent just basically doesn't get any time off. Not at all. Not ever. Only when the child sleeps and even then they have to see to the house (because it's damned hard to clean a house whilst you're looking after an awake child).

You might assume being a stay-at-home parent is the easy option. Take it from somebody who has experienced both sides of the coin...it's not.

My uncle is 34 and has actually never had a proper paid job apart from some volunteer work he did in the past, he drives and has his own car so that will open up job aspects for him I guess if he wanted to find a job.

Anyway he has a 3 year old son and he his girlfriend works as a midwife, she is the main source of income right now as she works and he doesn't, however he does all the housework, takes the baby out, does the shopping when she can't.


is my Uncle a complete layabout or is he actually doing some good whilst being unemployed?

Lots of things they say on the BBC news are crap...

My uncle is 34 and has actually never had a proper paid job apart from some volunteer work he did in the past, he drives and has his own car so that will open up job aspects for him I guess if he wanted to find a job.

Anyway he has a 3 year old son and he his girlfriend works as a midwife, she is the main source of income right now as she works and he doesn't, however he does all the housework, takes the baby out, does the shopping when she can't.


is my Uncle a complete layabout or is he actually doing some good whilst being unemployed?