Stressed, Tired, Rushed - Portrait of the Modern Family

I chose to summarize this article based on this past week and Thanksgiving.  Families now a days- of all backgrounds, live in a nonstop world.  They are always busy and running to try to finish one thing in time to start the next.  The article talks about how women still do most of the house hold work and child raising even when both parents work full time.  Women are the ones that suffer.  The article shows countless statistics about women that work and have families and the inequality in balancing the two.  Even bigger is the disconnect between spouses and division of housework/child raising.  Men say that they do an equal job as their wives.  But the wives say that they do much more.  Why is this?  How can this divide be changed?  Would paid paternity leave help with this issue?  I think it would.  I think that having dads stay home to help with the adjustment would make them better understand the work of a working mother and how difficult it is to balance work and home.  This would help with family bonding, lessen how tired families are, cut down on the rush, and even lessen stress in the household with more being taken careful by two people instead of one.
Stress is a huge factor in families today.  The article says "this is not an individual problem, it is a social problem" and that could not be more true.  Stress pulls people to their limits which effects work, school, family, friends, love, etc.  In a survey half the people who said that work and family balance was not difficult and that parenting was always enjoyable.  While 36% said it was challenging.  I think it is and should be challenging- not as challenging as it is though.  I do not have the magic perfect answer but I do think that anything worth while should also be hard work and not handed to you.  The work place is forgetting about the home life- this is seen in the book spoken about in the article, All Joy No Fun.  This is because working parents are around for the joyful times and big events not the day to day fun and activities.