I’m male. I’m also the stay-at-home parent in my family. I believe that women, properly motivated, are as good as men in the workplace. I believe that men, properly motivated, are as good as women at nurturing children. Still, the fact that I’m a male and 99.5% of all other stay-at-home parents are female makes me wonder sometimes whether that’s really true.
While babytalking to my daughter at approximately 3:00 PM EST today, my ears heard this coming from my mouth in the falsetto sing-song reserved for cooing at babies: “…Is there nurturing you get from mommy that daddy just can’t provide?…”