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Man about the house
April 3, 2005
Reporter: Peter Overton
Producer: Glenda Gaitz
Our changing society is seeing more men at home with the kids.
 Our changing society is seeing more men at home with the kids.
It's a revolution. You won't see it on the news. It's quiet, it's happening in the suburbs, but it's still a significant social upheaval. Now, more women are out working and more are in high-powered, highly-paid jobs. So more and more men find they have to adapt too. To give up all they've been brought up to believe in. To forget ambition, career and their traditional role as bread winner. Dad's been left holding the baby, literally. He's the new male, the man many women want. But how does this new domestic creature cope when the wife holds the purse strings and he's the one in the apron?

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