Fathers of America, you may consider yourselves indispensable, but a new survey says you’re only worth about one-third as much as mom around the house. Dad's value $20,248. Mom's value $60,182.

2012-06-12T15:26:48+00:00

A load of bullshit. About 5 years ago they did a report saying that a full time stay at home mom's value was 138k. Now it seems they've dropped that figure quite a bit.

Meanwhile you can get a full time nanny/housekeeper for half of what a mom is supposedly worth. Add in cooking 3 squares a day and you might be approaching 50-55k, maybe.

YadaYadaYada2 · 2012-06-12T12:55:31+00:00

Did they take into account how much money those men brought home from work versus the women? When you're bringing in 60k of actual money, and not just proving your worth via the equivalent value of vacuuming, I think you get a pass every now and then.

chocoboat · 2012-06-12T16:58:21+00:00

Well, I guess I should become a stay-at-home dad with a stay-at-home mom for a wife... we'd be financially set for life!

2012-06-12T18:29:52+00:00

I always loved this nonsense. It assumes that you hire different people to do each job in a household and pay them at least minimum wage or prevailing market. Does this mean a single father is worth $80,348 since he is doing everything himself?

Also how come these bullshit stats never include the income they both bring in from external sources when coming up with father's worth to the household? I out earned my ex by $200,000 a year and still did the laundry.

nigglereddit · 2012-06-12T15:13:42+00:00

I was talking to a few of my friends - male and female at a hotel this weekend and we all agreed that between all of us we couldn't think of more than half a dozen households in which the woman does even half, let alone the majority, of the domestic work.