How do you view "Fatherhood"
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How do you view "Fatherhood"
| Mon, 03-22-2010 - 9:08pm |
How involved should men be with their children and how involved ARE men (in reality) involved with their children?
Please indicate if you have children and you are speaking from personal experience. I think it would also be interesting to see how each gender views this topic, so please also indicate if you're male or female.
Please indicate if you have children and you are speaking from personal experience. I think it would also be interesting to see how each gender views this topic, so please also indicate if you're male or female.
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I clearly remember my dad changing my sisters diaper.
so what, what does that mean to you, now, anyway?
"so yes they will remember"
You have no way of knowing what your kids
will remember as adults.
true.
My dad did not change his children's diapers either, but he admired his son and son in law who did. He too worked and was kept out of a vital part of his children's childhood due to strict rules of gender roles in raising children in his era. He's in his 80's now, and he is glad that things have changed.
He was a very hands-on and occasionally diaper changing grandfather to my children.
According to him, the dirty work did matter as the gender roles were much too confining in his parenting era. I love my dad and I love that he was self-aware enough to know that things changed, and in his opinion, changed for the better.
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