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In the past fifteen to twenty years there has been a sex-role revolution in the United States. The typical American family with the husband at work and the wife at home with the children is no longer the typical American family. With close to 50 percent of all married women with children now working outside the home, the "typical" family now represents less than 20 percent of all American households. The role of women has changed, but …

…seemingly no end in site, it has becoming increasingly difficult if not impossible for mothers to work only the "second shift", namely running a household and raising children. Husbands need to take start taking a more pro-active approach to domestic responsibility and in turn they will have a much happier and healthier spouse and family. One can only hope that men will not only wake up and smell the coffee but make it as well.