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[Inkachu]

No, but the single parent could require the children to pitch in.

And just because kids live with a single mother doesn't mean that their father isn't an influence on them at all. Most kids have at least some visitation with their fathers even when their mothers have primary custody. So they should be seeing their father clean his own home on weekends and such.

While I'm sure it's true that children raised by single mothers miss out on a lot of fatherly influence, I don't think that is a primary reason why boys might grow up thinking that men don't do housework. The primary factor, IMO, would be whether their mother taught them to and expected them to do housework.

This, exactly. My brother and I were raised by a SAHM (dad worked) and we both had equal chores to do. My son has always had chores, when I was a single mom, and now that I'm married; that's never changed.