On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 07:50:41PM -0400, lou wrote:
> born, the woman usually has primary care for it. Often the father goes out
> without ever needing to worry about childcare because the mother is at home,
> where the mother usually has to ask the father to babysit. A mother is
> usually the one to take a day off of work because a child is ill, not the
> father, yet when the relationship breaks up he should take custody? That
> doesn't make a lot of sense to me. It would if child rearing and
> responsibility were equally shared prior to the breakup.
I spend a lot of time looking after kids that aren't mine, simply because
I like doing it. You can rest assured that if/when it comes to having
kids of my own, I will be spending a *lot* of time looking after them.
Despite this, the prevailing attitudes in this country (and many others
judging by comments here) mean that I would have very little chance of
getting custody in a relationship breakup.
And I don't think that's any more fair than the glass ceilings for women
in employment. Personally (I don't expect anyone else to agree) I'd be
glad to trade salary and promotion opportunities for a fair shot at
keeping hold of any kids I might have in future. Obviously I don't _plan_
on ever being in that situation, but who knows?
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