Parents sharing caregiving for children experience more conflict as compared to those where the mother is the sole caregiver, reveals a recent study.
Parents have less arguments or conflicts if the father spends more time playing with children rather than feeding or bathing kids.
However, this might not hold true for every family, according to Prof. Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan at Ohio State University.
"I don't think this means that for every family, a father being involved in caregiving is a bad thing," she said.
"But it is not the recipe for all couples. You can certainly have a solid co-parenting relationship without sharing caregiving responsibilities equally."
112 couples analyzed