THAT’S NOT WHAT WE WERE PROMISED: Everyone More Miserable as Fathers Pitch in Around House. “The typical American father spends more than twice as much time doing housework as his dad did in 1965 and logs almost three times more hours on child care. . . . Moms are devoting an average of 21 hours at work, compared with the eight hours their mothers spent. They spend 18 hours on weekly household chores, down from 32 hours in 1965.”