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Your choice of a good wife: Someone who can can cook, can clean OR career woman?

If you ask your Haitian father for advice on how to get a good woman, a good candidate for a wife, he will probably counsel you to get a woman who can cook and clean but is that all you need these days?
PHOTO: A Haiti mother and child deported at midnight from the Dominican Republic
PHOTO: A Haiti mother and child deported at midnight from the Dominican Republic

I am not even going to point the fingers at young Haitian-American women born, raised, and bred in the United States; they are not accustomed to the typical "wifey" things from good old Haiti.

Before you say yes to a typical Haitian man, let me just say that my mom still cleans my father's undergarments by hand after living 30 years in the United States. That makes her an "A+" good wife.

I know that over the years the requirements for what constitutes a good wife for Haitian man has changed but it seems to me that some Haitians are not really looking for a wife, they are looking for a maid.

No offense to my Haitian brothers out there but it is the truth.

What do you think about that?

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Lyn Hernandez says...

I agree. My bestfriend is haitian and all he talks about is that he wants a wife that cooks and cleans only. I think he only wants a maid more »

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Rza says...

It seems like your mom is the one that decided to keep washing your dad is clothes by hands... After 30 years in the U.S. I m pretty sure she more »

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Femmes Haitiennes says...

Si vous demandez à votre père haitien des conseils sur la façon d'obtenir une bonne femme, un bon candidat pour une femme, il more »

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