Wives can be paid for doing housework!! At the same time when I was surprised at the system, I was envious of Taiwanese women.
However, after I consider well, I found that housework is made up of the feeling comes from love for family. For example, feeling like "I want to make delicious dinner for my cute children and tired husband." or "I want to make the room clean for my family to be comfortable at home." Wives do housework for family, not for money.
I think the system can't work in Japan. Traditional custom will disturb it. I searched the Internet and found that even today, about 80% of men agree to women doing all the housework. In such a situation, husbands won't pay money to their wives.
In my family, almost all the housework is done by my mother. My father has been a business bachelor and he lives near Tokyo now. If he lives with us, he can help cook lunch or dinner. Yesterday, I asked my mother about housework. She said "If I don't work, it's O.K. to do all the housework, but if I also works all the day, not as a part-timer, it's hard to do housework by myself." Actually, my mother is busy worker recently and she seems to be tired to do housework like cooking dinner, cleaning. I have to help her more!!!
When I got married someday, I want my husband to do some housework like taking out garbages in the morning or cooking lunch or dinner on Holiday. Anyway, I'd like to spend my life happily:)
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You must be going to be a good wife. Housework should not be a task. But it seems that we do not have that kind of feeling that long...
返信削除Same as Daisuke's opinion. I also believe that a housework should not be a mandatory thing like a task because it comes from how people love their wife/ husband. I understand the system in Taiwan about a housework; however, Japan should not be Taiwan. Like it or not, Japan should keep the traditional housework system...I guess.
返信削除That's a good point. Doing housework should be part of showing your love for your family. A problem sometimes occurs when each partner has a different idea of, for example, when is a floor so dirty that it need sto be swept, but that can be overcome. Your mother sounds really busy! I'm sure she'd be so happy if you could help her some more!
返信削除I also have to help my mother but I can't help her so much..
返信削除I think if I can spend my life happily, I don't care about very busy for the houseworks.