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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We're two working parents and we don't even bat an eye. H's uncle was a SAHD in the early 80s and never went back to work.  I'm European and dads routinely take 1 year paternity leave in my home country.  [/quote]

I wish that young men regularly took paternity leave here.  It would make job interviews as a young woman a lot easier if everyone was in the same boat.  [/quote]

It's because everyone gets and takes 2 years full paid leave and it doesn't kill your career. I don't know if it's cause and effect, but at least in my home country, men are very involved in child raising and it's generational. My brother changed diapers, took care of the night feeds, cooks for the family. I remember my dad taking me to every weekly ballet practice and then we'd get a hot pretzel on the way home. He also showed me how to garden - he's an amazing gardener. My American H has no recollection of his father ever doing things with him when he was little and had to learn by himself how to be a father. He didn't even knew how to play with a small child, his dad never did.    [/quote]

Why would a man need to see another man play with a small child to figure that out? That’s a weird gender thing. [/quote]

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