What happens when the Breadwinner becomes the Househusband ?

High-flier KEITH KENDRICK reluctantly swapped roles with his wife. A year on, the results have astonished them both.

A mother eyed me curiously at my sons’ school fair, where I was manning the kitchen, baking baguettes and heating up soup.

‘You’re a real Beta Male, aren’t you?’ she said. For a moment, I thought I’d misheard her. ‘You mean a Better Male?’ I asked. ‘No,’ she replied. ‘A Beta Male, as in, not an Alpha. An Alpha Male would never be caught dead in the kitchen. Mine certainly wouldn’t. He’s a classic Alpha Male.’

I didn’t know how to take this. Was she insulting me, or paying me a compliment?  There was no question, however, that she had a point: I’m not an Alpha Male. But I used to be.

No to Housewife ! Yes to Househusband !

As lyricist Prasoon Joshi (2009) says, “The bottom line is that if the relationship is important enough to both partners, the couple will make an effort to work the marriage, No matter who is the breadwinner in the marriage.”

In the traditional time the father is the head of the famiy and also the provider and the role model for the children. But now a days the husband and wife change role the mother being the provider and the father work in the house. Househusbands are the male counterpart of housewives, househusbands often do the house chores such as cooking, cleaning the house, taking care of the children while the wife is the one who works and earn the money for the family. Here in the Philippines is not quite acceptable for the man to talk to his friends that he is the one who is in the house and taking care of his children and his partner is going to work to earn money for the family. But as the times goes by it was acceptable because of the indemand working of Filipina women working abroad the partner decided that the wife will work and the husband will stay in the house because of the big income that they will get. Recent data show that 37 percent of the women workers are married while 7 percent are either widowed or divorced/separated. A non-government organization called KAKAMMPI (Kapisanan ng mga Kamaganak ng Migrenteng Manggagawang Pilipino,Inc) estimates that about 5.85 million or 23 percent of all children and adolescents (17 years old and below) have at least a parent overseas.