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Men are pretty bad at breast feeding or carrying a pregnancy.
by drivebyhooting 1y ago
Men are pretty bad at breast feeding or carrying a pregnancy.
- tayo42 1y agoYou can formula feed or feed with pumped milk. Father's are capable of feeding children.
- drivebyhooting 1y agoFormula is not as nutritious as human breast milk. Bottle feeding leads to long lasting anatomical changes. You can look at the research confirming these uncomfortable and inconvenient truths.
- bdhe 1y agoWhat are the long lasting anatomical changes? Would love to learn more because my kids were bottle fed.
- drivebyhooting 1y agoNarrowing of jaws, airway, and higher change of sleep apnea into adulthood. You can see the difference even as a lay person.
- fzeroracer 1y agoThis is false.
- ribosometronome 1y agoWhooaa! You're going to give people whiplash with how quickly you're changing what's being discussed. Men are perfectly capable of reading to kids! That you use things men are perfectly able to do, rather than the things they're not, as justification for why women should not be in the workplace makes me think you're not nearly so loathe to utter it as you say.
- drivebyhooting 1y agoI was responding to someone claiming dads are just as good caretakers as moms. Clearly false.
- ribosometronome 1y agoRelitigating what's always been said seem like a waste of everyone's time, especially when you're already going to ignore the context in which you're having a discussion.
- drivebyhooting 1y agoI have no idea what you’re saying. You could interact with the claims made instead of making a meta point using corporate speak.
- Fraterkes 1y agoYou are being intellectually dishonest. What do carrying pregnancy and breastfeeding have to do with caring for a kindergarten age child?
- drivebyhooting 1y ago1. Younger siblings 2. Spending enough time to teach reading and arithmetic BEFORE kindergarten. So actually in this sub thread the relevant age is 0 to 5.
- Fraterkes 1y agoBreastfeeding generally stops at age 2 (or earlier). Your contention is that literacy is significantly affected by whether the mom or the dad is taking care of the child at age 2 and below?
- drivebyhooting 1y agoNot just literacy but everything is significantly affected by the care rendered from 0 to 4. My concern was broader: the children’s and society’s future. By your own admission, a father cannot alone provide care for an infant. And if there are siblings then the critical time period will stretch - perhaps to 3 or 4 years. Apparently the eldest would be reading chapter books by then, according to other comments in this thread. But I do not understand it. It is a bitter choice. For mothers to have a life outside of motherhood it is the children who are deprived.