"I didn't like that my wife was irritated because she didn't understand why,"
said a document distributed by Onomichi City, Hiroshima Prefecture, to women who were about to give birth, which introduced these contents as fathers' feelings, and many criticized SNS for their lack of understanding of housework and childcare. The city apologized for the content as "inconsistent with the feelings of those involved in child-rearing" and decided to stop distributing the documents.
Onomichi City has withdrawn the distribution of a document titled "From Senior Dads to You," which summarizes the results of a questionnaire survey of fathers living in the city five years ago.
Of these, in the item "I didn't like my wife's attitude and words", ▽ 5st place is "I don't understand and I'm irritated, I'm irritated by a little thing"
▽ 1nd place is "I'm busy taking care of the
baby and can't do housework".
In addition, in the "What I want my wife to do" ▽ 1st place was "I want you to clearly say what you should do" ▽ 2nd place was "I want you to do the housework as it is"
▽ 3rd place was "
I want you to do the housework as it is".
On the 23rd, when the contents of this document were posted on Twitter, as of the morning of the 25th, it spread widely, exceeding 2,<> retweets, and forced mothers to do housework and childcare, such as "It is not content to be sent to pregnant people" and "There are already people who are having a hard time with one operation, but will they hunt them down even more?" There were many opinions criticizing the content as lacking understanding.
According to the city, by 25 p.m. on the 2th, the city had received 166 opinions by phone and email, many of them critical.
In response to this, Mayor Yuhiro Hiratani apologized on Twitter on the evening of the 24th, saying, "We are very sorry that the content is not in line with the feelings of pregnant women, mothers, and other people involved in child-rearing, and has caused discomfort to many people," and the city decided to stop distributing the document.
On the other hand, the city also distributed a document called "To you who become a dad" to men in conjunction with the issuance of pregnancy notifications, and summarized and introduced the opinions of mothers raising children in a similar questionnaire.
Akira Takahashi, manager of the Onomichi City Health Promotion Division, told NHK, "It was an expression that encouraged the awareness of giving gender roles in a fixed manner.