男人分擔育兒責任有利於性生活

Men who share in child-care duties are more likely to have better relationships — with more satisfying sex lives — than those who do not help, new research shows.

新的研究顯示，與不協助照料孩子的男性相比，分擔育兒責任的男性更可能擁有較爲滋潤的愛情和滿意的性生活。

The finding is notable because past research has suggested that couples who share breadwinning and housework duties are more likely to divorce. But those studies used older data and did not examine child care, said Daniel L. Carlson, an assistant professor of sociology at Georgia State University and the lead author of the new study.

這一研究結果相當引人注意，因爲此前有研究表明，分攤家務和養家餬口責任的夫婦更容易離婚。但那些研究使用的是較爲陳舊的數據，且沒有審查這些家庭的育兒情況，新研究的主要作者，佐治亞州立大學(Georgia State University)的社會學助理教授丹尼爾·L·卡爾森(Daniel L. Carlson)說道。

“One of the most important findings is that the only child-care arrangement that appears really problematic is when the woman does most or all of the child care,” Dr. Carlson said. “They fight more, there’s more conflict, they’re less happy with the relationship, and both men and women are dissatisfied with how much sex they’re having.”

“我們最重要的發現之一是，只有在女性承擔大部分或全部育兒責任時，育兒事務的安排纔會確實成爲夫妻間的問題，”卡爾森博士說。“他們的爭吵越多，衝突就越多，兩人間的感情就越不融洽，雙方對性生活的質與量就越不滿意。”

The new findings, presented at the American Sociological Association’s annual meeting in Chicago, are based on data from about 487 low- to moderate-income heterosexual married couples with children who took part in a 2006 study on marriages and relationships.

這項研究採用了參與2006年某研究的約487對中低收入異性戀已婚已育夫婦的數據，其結果發表在芝加哥的美國社會學協會(American Sociological Association)年會上。