Dads Who Share Child Care Duties Are More Likely To Have Better Sex Lives- Study

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A new research that has been released has shown that dads who share child care duties with their wives and partners are more likely to have better sex lives.

According to the Daily Mail US sociologists who studied more than 900 heterosexual married couples found that those who equally divided looking after the children reported more satisfaction with their sex lives and relationships.

But when women were mostly or wholly responsible for child care, the quality of relationships and sex was lowest for both parties. Researcher Daniel Carlson, from Georgia State University, said: ‘What we find is that there’s generally little to no downside to men being largely responsible for child care. We conclude that being an engaged father is very important to men. If it weren’t, we wouldn’t see such a high level of satisfaction. It suggests that father engagement and sharing child care with one’s partner is important to both sexes.’

There was one caveat, however. A man taking on the majority of the child care burden seemed to set the stage for problems in the bedroom. In that situation, while wives exhibited the highest satisfaction with their sex lives, men demonstrated the lowest.

The findings were presented at the American Sociological Association’s annual meeting in Chicago. Mr Carlson said the study was limited in that it only included heterosexual couples and did not examine who fed or bathed the child, which has traditionally been seen as a mother’s responsibility.

The four tasks that the researchers looked at were who was responsible for making the rules for the children, who enforced the rules or punished the children when they broke them, who praised the children for their accomplishments, and who played with the children.

Dr Carlson said: ‘We only had one physical task, and that task revolved primarily around playing with the children, including sports and games, but nothing about who feeds or bathes them.’

Now Dr Carlson wants to learn more about the mechanisms behind why couples with more egalitarian childcare arrangements reported higher quality relationships and sex lives. Further research would look deeper into the reasons why couples who shared looking after the children got on better together. ‘We are trying to understand what it is about sharing that couples view so positively,’ said Mr Carlson.