Abstract
It is well known that a wife (mather) often bears nervous feelings when they rear her baby. In addition to the past researches up to now, it may be worth-while to add another examination how her husband (father) recognizes these feelings. If husband (father) does not recognize the wife's (mother's) anxiety sufficiently due to his lack of awareness how his wife feels during her childcare, it may be also worth-while to investigate factors which cause gaps between the wife's (mother's) nervous feelings and the husband's (father's) recognition of them. Three hundred and forty families were taken as samples for this research, of which results are as follows.
1) The wife (mother) bears strong anxiety because she feels extremely nervous about failing in the childcare. Nevertheless, this is not understood well by husband (father).
2) There is a large gap between the wife's (mother's) anxiety towards the childcare and the husband's (father's) recognition of her anxiety.
3) It is observed that the above gap is caused by husband's (father's) lack of understanding about the childcare itself. The gap also differs according to the types of wife's (mother's) social life. The gap is smaller when wife (mother) has an occupation when she does not. The gap is smaller when she has an extended family than when she has a nuclear family.
