Fathers have a choice
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| Tue, 07-25-2006 - 1:45pm |
I was flipping through the channels this morning when I came across one of those baby shows. I think it was called Bringing home Baby or something like that. Anyway, the part that caught my attention was where they were changing the baby (actually she was doing the changing. He was just standing and watching) She then made the comment that he "doesn't do diapers". She then goes on to say her dad didn't either and try to come up with some reasons why some dad's don't do it and how they can't handle it, blah, blah, blah. The new dad then piped in that he couldn't stand the smell and he just doesn't do them. She then says...some dads do and some dads don't.
So I sat there and thought.....Why does dad get a *choice* in it at all? Why do they get to *opt out* of the diaper changing duties? What if the mom decided she couldn't stand the smell as well? Would the child then stay in a dirty diaper for the next two years until he is potty trained or until one of them broke own and changed the poor child? Why would a mom think that changing a diaper was an opional assignment for the dad?
Anyway....it's not really sah/woh. But I thought it a good debate topic.....Why do dads get the choice to *opt out* of parenting duties? And why would moms let them do it?

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Perhaps you should answer her question and define what you are referring to when you state the middle east?
PumpkinAngel
I have, in my middle size midwestern city.
PumpkinAngel
Wow.
PumpkinAngel
Jennie
Jennie
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I don't understand that line of thinking either.
Julia
Julia
Proud Mommy of Macey and Reece
Double standards always interest me.
PumpkinAngel
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