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[quote=Anonymous]"Also, I don't understand how a parent, male or female, is excused from parenting duties, no matter their feelings? Guess I'm "old school" there..? 🤷🏼‍♀️"

I was raised by parents with a completely "old school" approach. He had a stable job in the military and his goal was to excel and get promoted so that they could earn more money over the years, and then retire on his military pension with health insurance and all the other essentials. Her job was to produce and raise his kids, keep his house orderly and feed us all on a budget, manage his finances/personal paperwork, organize his emotional/social life, and look really good doing it (stay fit/trim, wear makeup and do hair daily, dress in feminine outfits, etc...). Never in a million years would it have occurred to either of them that my dad should take on any parenting duties unless he chose, completely on his own, to do so. My dad did coach our sports teams, especially for my brother. He helped me with algebra homework. He organized and took us camping and taught us to hunt and fish. He fixed the family cars and would organize us kids to clean the yard with him. But never once did he do laundry so that I'd have clean socks to wear to school the next day. The thought of him scrubbing our bathtub just makes me laugh. They got along well because they each had their domain, and neither entered the other's lane.

In other words, there is NOTHING old school about thinking a sole breadwinner dad will engage in parenting "duties." [/quote]

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