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Jan 23, 2024 · The meaning of HOUSEHUSBAND is a man who does housekeeping usually while his spouse or partner earns the family income.
Oct 31, 2023 · Each year, an increasing number of husbands are taking on the role of staying at home to care for the house and children. In fact, as of 2023, according to the Pew Research Center, one in five...
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HOUSE HUSBAND definition: 1. a man who stays at home and cleans the house, takes care of the children, etc. while his partner…. Learn more.
- Colonial America
- 19th Century
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In the colonial period, marriage was understood more in a religious and practical sense. In Virginia, which had a landed gentry and a wealthy aristocracy, love was less important to marriage, since marriage brought together two families and their properties. For some families, sensible relationships were a way to uplift families, or to move up the ...
The informality of marriage practices--and their variability from state to state--became more visible after the American Civil War. When the federal government recognized a need to provide pensions to widows of former soldiers in 1862, women throughout the country attempted to collect these pensions that they were due. Requiring a proof of marriage...
In the 19th century, Webster's dictionary defined marriage as "the act of uniting man and woman, as husband and wife, for life." For most of American history, marriage was a practical household arrangement based on reciprocal obligations. It united men and women into a singular identity and transformed men into husbands and women into wives. In ide...
In the 20th century, we began to see more challenges to the heterosexual, intraracial ideal of marriage. This post does not address interracial marriage and encourages the reader to see our other DailyHistory poston the subject. In the context of the decision in "Loving v. Virginia" (1967) and the Civil Rights Movements, same-sex couples began to p...
It was not until 2015 that same-sex marriage was fully decided in "Obergefell v. Hodges". When this case was before the US Supreme Court, the primary issues at hand were discussing whether the 14th Amendment required a state to license marriages of same-sex couples and whether a state had to recognize the legal marriage of a same-sex couple that ha...
noun. a married man who keeps house, usually without having paid employment. Discover More. Word History and Origins. Origin of househusband 1. First recorded in 1965–70; house (wife) + husband. household word. Househusband definition: a man whose spouse works and who stays home to manage their household..
Britannica Dictionary definition of HOUSEHUSBAND. [count] : a married man who stays at home, does cleaning, cooking, etc., and does not have another job outside the home.
Definition of house husband noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
