Nonsense

[Sqad]

http://www.dailymail....rnity-leave-plan.html

Funny, I always thought that women had uterus, Fallopian tubes and ovaries to enable them to have babies and breasts with milk glands to aid in feeding the baby.

Men don't have these and hence can't have babies.

Women have babies, take time off work to "suckle" their babies and that wonderful word "bond " with them and men go off to work to bring in the food.

Seems simple and pragmatic to me and has worked well for nigh on 2million years, bit now.....wait for it....there's is a suggestion that men should have 6months off.

What are small businesses going to do or the NHS with their employees sitting at home with "Wifey" "
starring longingly at the neonate?

It is nonsense.

[Bbbananas]

You don't need to be home with your baby for 24-7 to bond.
My dad worked all the hourse god sent, morning, noon, half the night and sometimes weekends. I 'bonded' with him nonetheless - I love him enormously & almost hero-worship him.

[ummmm]

There was no such thing as a knife-carrying hoodlum...

Oh I think there was. Maybe not as young as now...but there was.

[NoMercy]

Not on the grand scale we see today, Ummmm. And if a police officer went to talk to a young toe-rag, he didn't fear being beaten up.... or sued for this and that...

[NoMercy]

It depends what part of the country you live in Vibra. And property may be relatively expensive wherever you reside, but getting your foot on the property ladder is never a bad thing, surely?

My step-dad didn't leave home til he was 39. He is, to all intents and purposes, a married batchelor. He does his own thing, takes my mother out once a year, she has to wash his clothes, cook his meals, keep his house (and he always refers to it as "his" house) and is supposed to be grateful for it. Meanwhile, he goes to the pub nearly every night, goes away with his motorcycle buddies, goes shooting every sunday and never spends more than 30 minutes in her company. Perhaps if he'd been kicked out at an earlier age and made to look after himself, he would have an entirely different attitude. But I think we're going off topic now. Sigh... ;-)

[ummmm]

But is your Mum happy?

[NoMercy]

No.

[ummmm]

That's a shame. Won't she put her foot down? I would...

[snags]

How many women, already tired and stressed from a recent birth, would really want their husbands 'cluttering up the place' anyway? Nice idea in theory, but in reality it would cause more resentment on both sides I reckon...

[snags]

Correct... and I have no particular desire to right now :-)

[NoMercy]

Ummmm... my mother had a tyrant of a father. She was conditioned from a very early age to just accept her lot and not to question or argue. Women knew their place in my family. So she's never really asserted herself with her husband. I, on the other hand used to stand up to my step father, and boy did I pay for it !

[ummmm]

I would've appreciated him being at home when they were born. Simple things like having a shower can be hard work.

[Barmaid]

lmao - from a very old fashioned farming family, I really can't see the idea of the males in the family taking 6 months off either a) possible or b) desirable. The idea of my father being stuck in the house with a screaming new born when there are jobs to be done outside would have sent my mother crazy.