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>>>Bill, I'll grant that Tamar is correct in one sense - there's been a much-needed culture change.
>>Needed for what?
>>To create a day-care industry?
>>Does anyone seriously believe that having a six-week old baby in day care is better for either the child or the mother than having the mother at home with the child?
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>Maybe when the US joins the rest of the world in offering paid parental leave, we'll stop putting 6-week-old kids in day care.
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>Also worth pointing out that it can be the father who stays home.
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I'm lucky enough that it was both.

I probably changed almost as many diapers as my wife did, and I've done the bath duty almost the entire time. The diaper changed was obviously a necessarily evil, but I never knew how much fun the bath time would wind up being.

Fathers should be involved as much as they possibly can.