pausing for a moment to collect my thoughts, I responded very truthfully, "Mike, I always side with the wife because she is ultimately going to prevail!"

     Surely, this does not imply that wives

are more determined or uncompromising. And it is certainly not intended to infer that husbands don't have good ideas. Neither does it mean that a wife's judgment is always correct. It is simply a fact that women's judgment with respect to the home is generally based upon considerably more insight and daily experience with family needs.

     Regardless of whether the family is comprised of one or two working parents, the division of responsibility generally favors more maternal coordination of the children's activities. Therefore, her familiarity with the children's study and play habits, spatial requirements, bathing and dressing needs, and social