Why does sharing of the care of infants create feelings of guilt and inadequacy for mums and dads?
Is the key challenge of sharing the care of children in fact stepping out of one’s culturally determined earning or caring role rather than the challenges of the new role? The Daily Mail is still at it, with yet more excellent articles about motherhood, fatherhood and family life (see my earlier blog on The Daily Mail). The latest is a confessional piece by a mother, Diana Appleyard, about her struggles to let her partner into her territory in the home: I hate being the bread winner says resentful working mother-of-two. She found herself constantly on the attack, feeling bad about not having the primary caring role, and he found himself forever on the defensive, feeling it impossible to prove himself on her territory. There have been 24 books written by fathers about new fatherhood in the last six years – men trying to produce a road map having travelled through unchartered territory. I wonder if they miss the point – the key challenge is perhaps not how to be a hands on parent – that
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