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To: Dayuhan who wrote (4910)	6/30/2001 7:06:18 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6089

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/opinion/columns/cohenrichard/A31282-2001Jun21.html Steven, you might find this recent column by Richard Cohen interesting. It was in response to the final column by Fred Barbash, who announced his retirement to take care of his kids. There were also some letters to the editor. Karen

To: Dayuhan who wrote (4910)	6/30/2001 8:45:53 AM
From: Poet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6089

Oddly, some feminists seem to be deeply offended by the notion that a male can not only be a single parent, but can find single parenthood easy. I think it challenges their assumption of inherent superiority. You mean an assumption of general superiority of women, or superiority WRT childrearing? I think some feminists, as well as some women who don't regard themselves as feminists, see women as morally superior because of their historic role of being surpressed, and I think this is wrong. I agree that the view that women are better able to rear children simply by virtue of the fact that they're female is borne out of social inertia. I think one's talent at raising children would be profoundly effected by one's own experience with one's family of origin and less so by gender. It troubles me that some feminists are disturbed by the idea that men can be good, sometimes better, parents. I think feminism has really veered off the track in this regard. I also liked your point about many men being better able to cope with the social isolation inherent in raising young children. I'd never thought about it that way. I know for me, the social isolation was the most stressful part of parenthood. There was a great editorial by Anna Quindlen in this week's Newsweek on the subject of Andrea Yates and the physicalexhaustion and social isolation faced by mothers. If anyone knows how to get an online version, would he or she please post it?

To: Dayuhan who wrote (4910)	6/30/2001 10:35:00 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6089

I had always thought that women were better with very young children because , 1) they can nurse them and 2) men seem to have more anger control problems. Of course that may just be the men I've seen. But just yesterday in Costco I saw an angry dad (with 3 year old crying child in the cart) push his cart way too roughly because he was annoyed and the child fell back and hit his head hard. I can't remember seeing a mom do that. I am sure they do, but I haven't seen it. I never thought about men being better able to deal with isolation. I'm not sure that's true. And when you combine isolation with the lowered status of being a homemaker, I would think it would take a very unusual man to be able to stick it out- and I think it does. As women have more and more choices it is beginning to be only unusual women who stay home as well. Thus the vast majority of children in the US are raised in little day care farms, rather than by either parent.