{"id":53028,"date":"2023-03-01T15:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T06:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/mar\/01\/stay-at-home-fathers-working-women-unpaid-caregiving-emotional-cognitive-labour"},"modified":"2023-03-01T15:00:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T06:00:26","slug":"so-fathers-want-to-be-more-present-in-the-home-put-down-your-phone-and-ill-tell-you-how-nilanjana-bhowmick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53028","title":{"rendered":"So fathers want to be \u2018more present\u2019 in the home? Put down your phone and I\u2019ll tell you how | Nilanjana Bhowmick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Babysitting is all very well, but to truly lighten a woman\u2019s load, partners must juggle physical, emotional and cognitive labour<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Like many men of my generation, I wanted to be a more present father than my own had been.\u201d As I read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/jan\/02\/stay-at-home-dads-father-shared-parenthood\">the first sentence of another article<\/a> about fathers staying at home, I thought about how we glorify men (or how men want to be glorified) for selflessly deigning to set their careers aside, which is usually seen as being \u201cfor\u201d their spouse, and getting away with doing the bare minimum.<\/p>\n<p>Staying at home with the children is not babysitting \u2013 it is a complicated business of physical, emotional and cognitive labour.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/mar\/01\/stay-at-home-fathers-working-women-unpaid-caregiving-emotional-cognitive-labour\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Babysitting is all very well, but to truly lighten a woman\u2019s load, partners must juggle physical, emotional and cognitive labour\u2018Like many men of my generation, I wanted to be a more present father than my own had been.\u201d As I read the first sentence of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3611,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[245,77,59,62,1203,1353,78,757,79,61,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-family","category-global-development","category-india","category-inequality","category-inequality-and-development","category-life-and-style","category-parents-and-parenting","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3611"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53029,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53028\/revisions\/53029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}