What Is The Ratio Of Men/Women You've Seen With Strollers?

Question

Is This A Clear Indication That Women/Men Are The Primary Caretaker Of Children?

Answer 1

I see more women with strollers. Women are usually the primary caregivers of children. Even when working as domestic help it would be once again females that are given these jobs since they are considered to be low status and not very high paying.

Answer 2

No,

The primary caretaker is the one that provides the food.

Example: Dad in Iraq in the military with stay at home mom. Dad provides the food necessary to substain the life. Dad primary care taker.

Example: Girl on welfare, government provides the food goverment is the primary caretaker.

Example. Mom works Dad's at home pushing stroller through Target. Mom primary caretaker -- she supplis the food.

Example: Dad lives with parents -- changes diapers but parents supply the food. Grandparents are the primary caretaker.


What you are observing is what sex is pushing a stroller -- no more no less (Iat most a stament of who is tending to the child at the moment) and not really much of a subject for anything that is truely important to a child.

Answer 3

in our faimly, I ( the husband) earn the money,

my wife does the lions share in caring for the baby's immediate needs.
HOWEVER,
I do so as well when I am not at work.

Yes, she does it more,
but only because I am not able to be here.

As far as I make the money so she has to do the dailywork?
I don't think so.


I mean, I could not pay someone to do that work for what I earn at my job.
very few men could
and secondly
when that child is an adult,
she ain't gonna care how much money you brought in,
but she is gonna care how much time and energy you gave her.

while I'm ranting,
let me mention to those who pay child support and think you are doing so much.

That pidly amount doesn't cover what it actually costs to raise a child,
and it certainly is not a substitute for actually being with your child and raising them.

Lets say you work 10 hours a day, 5 days a week,
a woman raising a baby is working 18 hrs a day, and is on call at night, 7 days a week, gets no vacations or holidays,
and probably doing some of your house work too, if not all of it.

well, I have to go thank my wife now,

Answer 4

Whoa!
Wouldn't seeing the number of men compared to women working at a construction site be just as "scientific" to determine who works harder to support their children and thereby being named as "primary parent"?

The question, as well as many of the answers, is completely sexist.

The ratio of stroller-pushers when both parents are available will be questionable, like on weekends, at state fairs or other places families frequent. Your question appears prejudicial because of parents who are in the proximity of their children most often at that age especially, are women, at the same time the father is most likely caring for the family by earning enough to purchase the family's needs. Added, women pushing a stroller may be the babysitter, sister of one of the parents, grandparent, etc.
Your question almost sounds like you are saying that pushing a stroller is more important than earning enough to feed the children in order to qualify one parent as 'more worthy'.
In a family, both parents have their places and neither is more important than the other, therefore naming one as "primary" devalues the efforts of the other. It could just as easily be asked that since men are the primary earners in a family aren't they the primary parent?
If the question is asking who spends more time with children and therefore should be named "primary parent" in a split family, the answer may well be "the babysitter".

Answer 5

in my totally unscientific approach to your question i went to the local mall and observed the following. out of the 13 strollers i saw 11 were being pushed around by unaccompanied women or women in groups of two or more. though i only saw two men with strollers they were accompanied by a woman who seemed to be the primary caregiver ie wiping noses ,handing bottles and such. so on this limited research i would conclude that at an early stage at least the woman is still the primary caregiver.

Answer 6

80% Women 17%men 3%couples. Yes women are the primary caretakers in most families.

Answer 7

Now that you brought it up I I think I have seen 1 guy with a stroller all by himself in the past 5 plus years. I see women all the time and if a guy is with her she is still the one pushing!

Answer 8

More women. But I think that should change a little. More people should work part time...

Answer 9

103 to 1, But it's usually a Grandma pushing a bi-racial kid, while the Mom is out trying to make another bi-racial kid.