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Two recent studies have focused on marital equality and satisfaction in couples where one of the spouses stays at home full-time with the children and the other spouse works full-time outside of the home. One study looked at couples with a stay-at-home mother/career father while the other study examined couples with a stay-at-home father/career mother. Similarities as well as differences emerged between the two samples when comparing the experiences of these couples. In general, couples in both arrangements shared positive feelings about their marriages, although the mothers across both samples reported higher levels of stress and exhaustion than fathers.
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Zimmerman, T.S. Marital Equality and Satisfaction in Stay-At-Home Mother and Stay-At-Home Father Families. Contemporary Family Therapy 22, 337–354 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007816725358
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