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Posted by: Poulenc 1 year, 7 months ago

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Poulenc1 year, 7 months ago

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Well, the mutation of traditional gender roles, which has occurred with slightly more than glacial speed over the last, oh, twenty years or so is still clearly a...work in progress.
It's not, I believe, that men CAN'T attend to the thousand details of child-rearing with the same skill and attention as women--it's just that, in most cases, they're reluctant to.
Why?
Because for many, it's still considered women's work--that is, work that occurs in the domestic sphere. These guys see themselves as public-sphere operators.
But time will do its thing and there'll be more parity between the sexes.

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  chevydog1 year, 7 months ago
  
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  Expectations go both ways and are not always realistic. When our children were growing up, I made a special effort to avoid working overtime. The job helped, since it was not one for which stuff often HAD to be done NOW. Still I often found myself on the end of resentment that my 7:30-4:00 job (40 hrs/wk) was not a 9:00-2:00 one, so that I could take the kids to school and pick them up. But it just wasn't possible.
  Running a household with growing children is a major-league job. Not every family has the fortune to have both parents working jobs that provide time flexibility; sometimes asking one is asking too much. With differing schedules and differing aptitudes/talents between parents, splitting everything 50/50 is neither realistic or sometimes desireable.
  
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  KISA452a1 year, 7 months ago
  
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  Or maybe they are sick and tired of women harping on them telling them they "kinda suck" since they have a different way of doing things? Seems easier to just stay out of the way. Nah... Gotta be that they suck.
  This lady needs psychological help.
  
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    KISA452a1 year, 7 months ago
    
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    Guess that should be "society" instead of "women" in the first sentence.
    
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