oldandslow wrote:
Congratulations!
BTW, Heck of an "uptick":
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In 1975, fathers spent an average of 15 minutes a day with their children. By 1995, it was 2 hours. That is an increase of 800 percent. During this same timeframe, fathers’ attendance at the births of their children rose from small numbers to nearly 90 percent.
Thank you, I figured it had to be something like that wrt birth attendance by fathers. I remember reading Ted Williams' biography and it mentioning that he wasn't at the hospital for any of his kids births and that he was actually on fishing trips for two of them and didn't cut the trips short. At the time it was remarkable to me - what a terrible father, doesn't he care about his wife or his new child??? But in reading more about the the role of the father back then - this was the 40's and 50's - it's not at all surprising that he left the birthing and early days to his wife and mother-in-law and he was ready and willing to discipline the kids when they were old enough.
Nowadays if you show up to the hospital the day your wife and new child are released you'd practically be put in jail for neglect, and I don't necessarily disagree, I think the birth and few days after are very important for you as a family and a couple.