Parenting, 50-50
The ups and downs of sharing equal responsibility for the children.
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Roger Kranenburg, son Liam, 3, daughter Kennedy, 5, and wife Katherine begin their day at home. Across the country, parents are struggling through what many of us thought would come easily: an authentic split-down-the-middle approach. Is it working? “It’s stressful,” says Roger Kranenburg, an energy consultant. “It can really test a marriage.”
Matt McClain / FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
![Steve Majors, right, reads with Shoshana Leavitt-Majors, 7, as partner Todd Leavitt tends to other duties. “Look at this; my parents never did this,” Majors says of homework. “We were told to ‘go outside.’ I never saw my parents.” He continues: “We are raising our kids differently [than our parents did]. That’s our decision. But it means we take on all the extra burdens.”](/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2012/11/21/Magazine/Images/MG-Parents21541353475392.jpg)
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