It is common knowledge that children always wish to grow up faster whereas the only dream of all the adults is to come back to that beautiful period of their life when they were children and when they did not have to think about those problems each of their faces every day. The desire to grow up and striving to be able to make the decisions on their own is what most of the children are thinking of because, as they think, when you are an adult you are very serious and responsible and this seriousness comes not with experience but simply with years adding to your age. Most of children will never be able to comprehend that the adults, not all of them, of course, get their seriousness and experience learning from their mistakes, and most of them enter into the grown-up life being not ready for this. This is why most of people have to become grown-ups due to the circumstances they turn out to be in, and this, in most of the cases, sharp and unexpected transition from childhood into adulthood can be very crucial for the development of their personality. In fact, being a parent is a big responsibility even for an adult, and usually it does not go off smoothly even with those who were ready for this, let alone those who have to be involved into the household routine having absolutely no clue what this routine is all about. The article Life Course Transiti
ons and Housework: Marriage, Parenthood, and Time on Housework deals with the influence of transitions to different statuses on men and women. These transitions involve such changes in the life as getting married or just starting living together as well as one of the most troublesome which is becoming parents. According to the article, the attitude to the household responsibility differs with a persons passing from one stage of life to another, and the contribution to the housework depend greatly on the variety of factors, gender factor being the most important among them. From all the life course stages each person has to go through on the way of his or her personality formation, the most critical is the transition to parenthood as here the most widespread problem such as household labor division arises. The aim of the article Life Course Transitions and Housework: Marriage, Parenthood, and Time on Housework is to find out how the transitions to different stages of the life course effect the household work time and whether these transitions effect it at all. In other words, this article aims at discovering whether the amount of time spared out by a person for the household work gets bigger or lessens when this person grows older and his or her responsibilities change at such important stages of life as cohabitation, marriage and becoming a parent.