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I don't think there's enough evidence to suggest that stay-at-home dad would result in worse outcome of children. So, it would be fair to criticize men if men a

I don't think there's enough evidence to suggest that stay-at-home dad would result in worse outcome of children. So, it would be fair to criticize men if men aren't sharing the burden of raising the children 50/50 (after the first year or so of nursing period is over).

rayiner 8y ago
The nursing period is also not a differentiating factor. The long-term benefit from breastfeeding is very thin, likely not even a couple of IQ points if that: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/139/4/e20161848; http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/139/4/e2016184... https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/everybody-calm-down-about-breastfeeding/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/everybody-calm-down-abo...
- steve_taylor 8y ago
  Some recent studies have found lack of breastfeeding and autism to be linked.
  - rayiner 8y ago
    “Linked” is a weasel word for lack of a a quantifiable result. (Not breastfeeding increases autism risk by X%.) The better thing is to look to the massive medical experiment we happened to have conducted in the last 50 years. From 1970 to today, breastfeeding rates have inverted. Back then, 70% of babies were never breastfed, even in the hospital. Today, it is the opposite. But rates of autism are not much higher among Gen X-ers than millenials.
    - steve_taylor 8y ago
      “Linked” is a synonym for “correlated”. No need to be a dick.
- drivebycomment 8y ago
  I don't mean that the nursing period is so much a differentiating factor for the outcome, but rather that if the parents chose to breastfeed, that is one and about the only biologically differentiated role between a mother and a father, thus needs to be accounted for in some way. Ideally men should take more of other child caring burdens during the breastfeeding, but that depends on various other practical factors, so I wouldn't call men up for failing to do that.

rayiner 8y ago

The nursing period is also not a differentiating factor. The long-term benefit from breastfeeding is very thin, likely not even a couple of IQ points if that: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/139/4/e20161848; http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/139/4/e2016184... https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/everybody-calm-down-about-breastfeeding/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/everybody-calm-down-abo...

steve_taylor 8y ago
Some recent studies have found lack of breastfeeding and autism to be linked.
- rayiner 8y ago
  “Linked” is a weasel word for lack of a a quantifiable result. (Not breastfeeding increases autism risk by X%.) The better thing is to look to the massive medical experiment we happened to have conducted in the last 50 years. From 1970 to today, breastfeeding rates have inverted. Back then, 70% of babies were never breastfed, even in the hospital. Today, it is the opposite. But rates of autism are not much higher among Gen X-ers than millenials.
  - steve_taylor 8y ago
    “Linked” is a synonym for “correlated”. No need to be a dick.
drivebycomment 8y ago
I don't mean that the nursing period is so much a differentiating factor for the outcome, but rather that if the parents chose to breastfeed, that is one and about the only biologically differentiated role between a mother and a father, thus needs to be accounted for in some way. Ideally men should take more of other child caring burdens during the breastfeeding, but that depends on various other practical factors, so I wouldn't call men up for failing to do that.