I was eight months pregnant with my son when Izzy Chan asked me if I would help her document the increasing trend of women becoming the primary breadwinners of their families.

She had statistics and facts for this new role reversal that painted a pretty dismal outlook.

As the primary breadwinners of our own households, we were not satisfied by the statistics so we wanted to learn more.

We wanted to hear from real families…

From both sides of the story…

From real dads, husbands, men…

And from real moms, wives, women…

Who have very real needs, dreams, responsibilities…

And that lead us to Bonnie and Chip and their family of five, soon to be six…

We spent a Sunday…

And a Monday morning…

 

…following these two around, asking questions, listening and watching.

We have just gotten started and already we have learned a lot from the Wan-Rees family, and from the other five families we have followed.

Our goal is to share how real families are making it work in the Modern Home Front, so we can all learn how to move through these new gender, family, cultural changes as successfully as possible.

So we are currently in the middle of editing a sneak peek of their story, to help us raise money so we can go back…

And capture the next chapter of their story…

To (hopefully) be continued soon.

You can follow our adventures on the ‘The Big Flip: Stories from the Modern Home Front’ here: https://www.facebook.com/BigFlipDocumentary and here: http://bigflipdocumentary.com/