The brutal hours and travel demands of a legal career do little for a lawyer’s family life. But one of the perks of the profession is that many attorneys earn large salaries, so their spouses can afford to stay at home and raise the children. Sometimes, the partner in charge of the household happens to be the husband.

Over the past two decades, stay-at-home dads have become more common. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there were 158,000 stay-at-home fathers in 2009.

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