[DEBATE] : Re: whining

Alan Murphy ecopeace at gmail.com
Thu Jun 1 11:10:05 BST 2006


And purchase shoes for her?
Alan


On 6/1/06, Peter Mahlangu <tshankimahlangu at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Of course, the father must assist, especially if the
> mother needs a rest or is busy cooking, but the
> primary responsibility, all things being equal, lies
> with the mother.
>
>
> --- Kerry Cullinan <kerry at health-e.org.za> wrote:
>
> > Oh, Peter, Peter, Peter. Usually I don't bother with
> > your more extreme
> > comments. But I'm not going to let you claim that
> > women are whining about
> > breastfeeding. Do you know any such whiners? For all
> > my friends and I who
> > have given birth to children, breastfeeding was a
> > wonderful experience. But
> > given that both pregnancy and breastfeeding takes
> > its toll physically (as
> > for months you are the only source of your baby's
> > food) is it really so
> > unreasonable to expect that the father of the baby
> > helps with the kids? Or
> > do you ascribe to the capitalist definition of a dad
> > as being the person who
> > goes out and earns the cash?
> >
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