Helpful Dads Damage Mother's Self-Esteem at Home?

**Zuberi** · 20th-March-2010

Article here. Excerpt:
'The competence of diligent dads helping out at home is damaging the self-esteem of "super-moms" who feel caught between work and traditional child-rearing roles, according to a new study revealed by LiveScience.
The University of Texas at Austin interviewed 78 dual-earner couples who had eight-month-old infants, measuring them on two types of self-esteem — self-liking and self-competence.
Researchers asked the parents to talk about their partner's strengths and weaknesses and rated their responses.
They found that among mothers who thought their partners were competent caregivers, the more time those fathers spent alone with their children, the lower the mother's self-competence rating was.
"In American society, women are expected to take a main role in parenting despite increasingly egalitarian sex roles," said study researcher Takayuki Sasaki of the Osaka University of Commerce in Japan.
"Thus, we believe that employed mothers suffer from self-competence losses when their husbands are involved and skilful because those mothers may consider that it is a failure to fulfil cultural expectations," Sasaki said.'

**Stan** · 20th-March-2010

See?

It's the guy's fault yet again, LOL.

**Percy** · 20th-March-2010

They found that among mothers who thought their partners were competent caregivers, the more time those fathers spent alone with their children, the lower the mother's self-competence rating was.

Such was the 'data'. Let us accept for a moment that it was accurate.

The researchers now have to ask what 'causes' the result.

"In American society, women are expected to take a main role in parenting despite increasingly egalitarian sex roles," said study researcher Takayuki Sasaki of the Osaka University of Commerce in Japan.

And the data to support this? Where is it?

But again let us suppose it is true.

One has to ask, 'So what?'

It is also part of the American cultural expectation that all men are rapists and they should be at work supporting the adult women they are currently raping. And that men build motor cars and go fishing and get sent overseas to shoot wogs.

"Thus, we believe that employed mothers suffer from self-competence losses when their husbands are involved and skilful because those mothers may consider that it is a failure to fulfil cultural expectations," Sasaki said.'

No link has been made. No causal connection.

It is not even a logical syllogism.

What he is saying is that HIS beneficial actions damage HER self-esteem. How?

He is also saying that HER self esteem is suffering because HE is paying attention to his child rather than being out working or raping. Where on earth is any logical or causal connection here.

Does her self esteem suffer when he stops fishing or stops making cars or stops shooting wogs?

Is this normal everyday social scientist laziness? Or perhaps a peculiar Japanese mind. Damned odd these Japanese, even though they make damned fine cameras.