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25th May '13 8:56:09 PM RAraya

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This is where in a married couple, the husband is [[ManChild child-like]] and the wife is like a parent to him except that she can quite easily provide him sex. Sometimes, the wife may talk about feeling like she really does have one more child than the number of children they have, and guess who the extra is? Ironically, her job of child care may be made easier by the husband being able to connect to their children more effectively.

Sometimes, this is part of a CloserToEarth setup, with a BumblingDad. He may also be a HenpeckedHusband, or he may just have a penchant for causing [[HilarityEnsues wacky hijinks]] that his wife must resolve. Sometimes, the husband is perfectly angelic or a hard worker, or a mixture of the two, and the wife is simply motherly with no shallow motives.

A rather awful DoubleStandard (not owing to sexism, but more as a curious after-effect of AllGirlsWantBadBoys --most of all from said boy's slacker side--); the notion of a girlish wife in need of control and protection by a fatherly husband [[DeadHorseTrope rarely appears today]] but this one persists. There are UnfortunateImplications on both sides - men are told that they're useless and incompetent, at least in the realm of family life, and should really just let their wives take charge; women are told that they [[MenAreChildish can't expect their husbands to act like grownups]] and should just resign themselves to always having to be the boring, responsible killjoy in the family.

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A modern, less "offensive" variation of the HenpeckedHusband, where in a married couple, the husband is quite a [[ManChild child-like]], slobbish {{jerk|ass}}, and the wife is like a parent to him except that she can quite easily provide him sex. Sometimes, the wife may talk about feeling like she really does have one more child than the number of children they have, and guess who the extra is? Ironically, her job of child care may be made easier by the husband being able to connect to their children more effectively.

Sometimes, though, the husband is perfectly angelic or a hard worker, or a mixture of the two, and the wife is simply motherly with no shallow motives, with him being most of all a BumblingDad with a penchant for causing [[HilarityEnsues wacky hijinks]] that she must resolve, this being part of a CloserToEarth setup.

A rather awful DoubleStandard; the notion of a girlish wife in need of control and protection by a fatherly husband [[DeadHorseTrope rarely appears today and]] [[ValuesDissonance is largely perceived]] [[MostWritersAreMale as overtly sexist]], (Similarly, the HenpeckedHusband scenario is considered nowadays to be a big TakeThat against the sole idea of a woman pulling the weight on the family --see the description above--) but this one persists. There are UnfortunateImplications on both sides - men are told that they're useless and incompetent, at least in the realm of family life, and should really just let their wives take charge; women are told that they [[MenAreChildish can't expect their husbands to act like grownups]] and should just resign themselves to always having to be the boring, responsible killjoy in the family.

8th May '13 9:39:12 AM jmw1122

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2nd Apr '13 9:26:41 AM Alrune

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29th Mar '13 8:04:17 PM RAraya

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23rd Mar '13 7:41:56 AM RipperJones