First Steps

A househusband’s job description is not the most appealing. The hours are long and anti-social, the work is often mundane, repetitive and boring and there is no pay and no holidays.

There is ...

It can be a funny thing, a job. The need to earn a living means work is a necessity for most, but given the option plenty of people would ditch their job in favour of a life of freedom. Strangely, ...

Regardless of what the politically correct brigade say in these so-called liberated times, there is still a stigma attached to being a househusband. There may have been a slight shift in some ...

Househusbands are not particularly rare any more. According to the government’s Office for National Statistics, there were 189,000 of them in the UK by the start of 2008. It would seem sensible to ...

Make no mistake, being a househusband is a full-time role. A stay-at-home dad is on call from early in the morning until early evening, and may even be called into action during the night. Trying to ...

There is no getting away from the fact that raising a child costs money and lots of it. In 2007, research from a UK financial services provider found the cost of bringing up a child from birth to ...