“The marital structure will have to adapt and learn how to do this better,” he says. “And men will have to learn how to communicate better.” Though Kaibel continues to look for full-time work, he loves his new life. “Men are starting to realize, Wow, we lose this massive dimension of our relationship with our kids by just enslaving ourselves at work all the time,” he says. “And we’re starting to figure it out, that we need to have that connection, too.”
