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Originally Posted by {aspiring_to_clarity}  Why can't women have both children and careers? Men have been doing it since the dawn of time (or at least the dawn of careers). What I think I don't understand is your reasoning that only women have to pick and choose. Why not say either a man can have children or a career, not both. Maybe you do believe that. I can't tell. |
Men have a full career and half or less children. Which parent is more dedicated to their children, mother or father? 99.8% of times it's mother. It's kind of a given that men go work the whole day and bring the bacon home while woman keeps the house tidy and raises children and so on. Maybe people subconsciously want the children in this world have at least one proper parent. But as women are told to be the masters at multitasking... who knows.
I personally feel a lot that I as a male am not able to care as much as a female is. Well, even just physically, a child needs her mother, but she doesn't need her father. As Vasilisa said earlier, men can't nurse. In fact, men pretty much can't do squat when it comes to children - they can be helpers at most. All kinds of studies go on about how women have developed abilities to tell what a child needs and that they have some special instincts, etc. While men are better at judging the speed of moving objects (hunting).
I'm just frustrated because my caring ability is non-existent compared to women. (And children are quite irrelevant in this matter really.)