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Offline MaterDominici

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Re: Women want men to get no sleep and still provide for family
« Reply #10 on: July 07, 2019, 08:48:52 PM »
If we're being really fair, it should be noted that the author said the poem was written in jest (although inspired by a stressful night) and that she laughed about it with her husband the next day.

As to those women who were agreeing with her sentiments, I'd want to know whether or not they have to work the next day before I'd be too critical. The author, while not exactly a stay-at-home mom, was on maternity leave and had agreed to take care of the baby at night until her maternity leave ended. So, perhaps the poem is just foreshadowing what she'll be thinking in a couple of months.

The idea that men should help care for the baby of course goes hand-in-hand with the idea that women should be proving half the income.

(Info is all from the link below the video.)
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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: Women want men to get no sleep and still provide for family
« Reply #11 on: July 07, 2019, 09:29:17 PM »
Our first child suffered with intense colic.  I don't think I slept for about 6 months.  I was at a meeting at work and fell asleep sitting there in my chair, to notice people snickering as I snapped out of it.  Unless the father finds some cave in which to seclude himself, he'll be awoken by the baby's night-time antics as much as the mother.  So I'm not sure that this is even a real issue.
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Offline SusanneT

Re: Women want men to get no sleep and still provide for family
« Reply #12 on: July 09, 2019, 04:59:24 PM »
Quote from: jvk on July 06, 2019, 07:55:32 PM
I'd like to know when it became the norm that men were expected to start helping with the babies, anyway.  
Other than though necessity (for example following bereavement) I guess it was when feminists started telling women that motherhood was beneath them !
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Offline jvk

Re: Women want men to get no sleep and still provide for family
« Reply #13 on: July 09, 2019, 09:19:00 PM »
Quote from: Ladislaus on July 07, 2019, 09:29:17 PM
Our first child suffered with intense colic.  I don't think I slept for about 6 months.  I was at a meeting at work and fell asleep sitting there in my chair, to notice people snickering as I snapped out of it.  Unless the father finds some cave in which to seclude himself, he'll be awoken by the baby's night-time antics as much as the mother.  So I'm not sure that this is even a real issue.
Haha!  My husband can sleep through anything.  One night 2 children threw up all over our bedroom carpet...and me, while I was IN the bed...and he slept right on through.  Even with the sick baby crying.  Unless maybe he was faking.... :furtive:
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Offline Joseantoniano

Re: Women want men to get no sleep and still provide for family
« Reply #14 on: July 09, 2019, 11:57:40 PM »
Women in the title shouldn't be plural. Other than that, I don't see anything wrong with the topic, though.
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