We also make it incredibly stressful to even have a kid. No support, no social circles, no village. Everything is based on this impossible "nuclear family" that never really existed and still doesn't. We expect two people to do what extended family used to do in the past.

My husband has brought up being a stay-at-home dad a few times. Besides the fact that he mostly fantasizes about it as a way to not work, and somehow thinks he will enjoy hours of childcare during the week better than during the weekend, I definitely think guys face much more of a career penalty. I cut back my hours…

Seriously! In congruence with personal preferences, can we talk about how we are not socially/culturally set up to raise children unless you have a ton of money and time? Well funded, publicly accessible child care and federally available paternity leave as well as maternity leave seem obvious. No disrespect to…

It would help if we didn't make it insanely expensive to raise a child who might be economically independent in the future, but hey, fuck universal healthcare, amirite?

No one is saying having kids is a walk in the park for either gender in a heterosexual relationship, but come on. Men don't spend as much time as women thinking about the consequences of having a child because they don't have to. They don't mentally map out when is the right time to have kids to be successful in their…

And you just know that he's not going to be the one waking up every two hours to feed the baby.

Homeboy wants kids but is not willing to make the sacrifices? Thats Grade-A bullshit right there.

That is not a truly liberal feminist guy.

At one point, she asked if he would consider quitting his job to be a stay-at-home father given how much he wanted a baby. "That just wasn't the plan he had in mind," she said.