household responsibilities

Tasks at home

Household responsibilities are the tasks required to maintain a home and care for its occupants—cleaning, cooking, laundry, childcare, yard work, and managing finances.

The phrase often appears in discussions of how these duties are divided between partners: We split household responsibilities evenly.

The division of household responsibilities remains a common source of domestic conflict.

Related

changing diapers · paying bills · emotional support · bedtime routines · mopping · organizing · taking out trash · mowing lawn · laundry · folding clothes · dishwashing · gardening · vacuuming · tidying up · making beds · cooking · decluttering · saving

Opposites
obligation vs. leisure

household responsibilitiesleisure activities

Pursuits during free time

recreation · free time · relaxation · hobbies · entertainment

domestic vs. professional sphere

household responsibilitiesjob duties

Assigned work obligations

office work · employment · professional life

duty vs. neglect

household responsibilitiesdereliction

Abandonment of duty

irresponsibility · avoidance · slovenliness · slacking

Family

household, responsibilities, responsibility, responsible, responsibly, irresponsible, irresponsibly, houses, housed

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G