“家庭婦男”

聽過”家庭婦女“，聽過”家庭婦男“嗎？沒錯，現在兩性平等的呼聲越來越高，隨之女性也可以參加工作，也可以養家。故而”家庭婦男“光榮的誕生了。今天的英語閱讀材料就來八一八家庭婦男的事兒吧。

husband=house+band 屋宇栓牢!(band的含意就是Something that constrains or binds morally or legally束縛：在道義上或法律上受到限度或約束的事物。比喻說the bands of marriage and family 婚姻和家庭的約束)。這當然有玩笑的成分，不外也表明了丈夫和家庭的密切聯係。咱們都曉得housewife是“家庭婦女”的意思，那麼，你知道“家庭婦男”用英語該怎麼說嗎?

英語閱讀材料中的　“家庭婦男”的說法很簡單，就是由house房子跟husband丈夫組成的，即house-husband。說“家庭婦男”多多少少都帶點貶斥色彩，而“全職爸爸”則是一個比較中性的說法，指不包袱家庭經濟任務的父親，在事實中，他們生活重心以辦理家務、照顧子女或自我休閑為主。

A house-husband is a man who stays at home and doesn't go to work, while his wife goes to work and earns money. Usually a man becomes a house-husband in order to look after children. Sociologists have found the full-time househusband emerges in three main situations. Firstly, if the wife is ambitious, well-paid and has good job prospects, while her husband is paid poorly and has no job prospects, it makes economic sense for the female to become the main income earner for the household.

第一：妻子有個好工作並且掙得比丈夫多。

Secondly, if the wife is tired of household chores and eager to work outside the home, her husband may forfeit his job for her sake. 英語之家www.yingyuzhijia.com

第二：妻子樂意主外，而丈夫有成人之美。

Thirdly, if the husband can do his work at home, he may take this option as it allows him more time to take care of the family.

第三：丈夫可能在家辦公，從而有條件多花心理在家裏。

Housemaker是house-wife跟house-husband的統稱。當強調在家照看孩子職責的時候，咱們也能夠稱house-wife為stay-at-home mom，稱house-husband為stay-at-home dad。還有一種"domestic engineer"的委婉說法，不過這種說法多少對居家者有種諷刺譏諷的味道，所以一定要慎用。與之類似的"housekeeper"這個詞也要警戒利用，因為它同樣用於挖苦居家者。

有關house-husband的英語閱讀材料新聞：

In a traditional Chinese family, women are expected to do the housekeeping and leave the "other business" to men. However, the emergence of the full-time "househusband" is changing traditional family dynamics. 英語之家www.yingyuzhijia.com

A survey in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen shows that 22 percent, 73 percent, 34 percent and 32 percent of white-collar male workers, aged between 28 and 33, would be prepared to do the housekeeping if the conditions were right.

有關house-husband的對話：

A: Will you go back to work after you have the baby?

B: Oh yeah!

A: Who'll look after the baby when you're at work then?

B: My husband--he's going to quit his job and become a house husband. I earn more than him, so it makes sense really. And he loves kids, so he'll enjoy it.

Some families with full-time househusbands prefer others not to know about their arrangement, concerned people would laugh at a husband with "no prospects" or wife who is "too strong", but it's getting more common.

有些男人一開始可能還覺切當“全職爸爸”不好意思，不過當初這種情況越來越普遍了。Many of the young men believe a successful man will make a good father. 成功的男人也能做個勝利的父親，你是不是也堅信這點呢?

其實不管是”全職爸爸“還是”家庭婦男“都沒有多大問題，最主要的是家庭觀念的轉變，不再是男主外，女主內，更多的是依靠夫妻雙方的力量讓家更溫馨，更有愛。英語閱讀材料，天天有精彩。