Domestic bliss

Let us have homes crowned with the clambering vine, amid the cooling shade of trees, surrounded with the verdant lawn, with pendant berries, with golden fruits, and cluster of purple grapes. Homes graced with pictures, refined by books, and gladdened with song. Homes in which there shall be no scorching blasts of passion, no polar storms of coldness and hate. Homes in which the wife and mother shall not lose all her attractive charms by unremitting drudgery and toil, nor the husband starve…

Susan Copich, a mother of two from New York, has taken a darkly humorous approach towards traditional family photography with a series of daring images entitled "Domestic Bliss."

This illustration by the American artist Jessie Willcox Smith is called A Mother's Days which I thought was pretty appropriate considering it's Mother's Day today! Jessie Willcox Smith's illustrations are in the classic Arts and Crafts/ Art Nouveau style which...

My laundry pile in October 2008. Some things never change. This is the story of the Laundry Pile that Ate New York. Okay, so maybe it's not that bad. But it certainly seems to be eating my sofa. I don't even know how many loads it is, I'm afraid if I start counting I'll never ever stop! It begins innocently enough. I devise a system - say, one load washed, folded and put away every single day. And then it gets tedious. It just doesn't seem worth the effort to have only one pair of pants to…

A suburban housewife with a cheating husband is not above killing the competition to preserve her domestic bliss. #drama #comedy #KatherineHeigl #Mona #PatrickWilson #Don #JordanaBrewster #Dusty #crime #family #movie

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1970's housewife

Fathers as depicted in children's stories tend to be slightly more conservative and old-fashioned than reality, or more present and idealised.