Ms. Parker brings the claws out

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by painter

Dearest merrylander...we (you and I ) are of a different generation. Today's fathers are right in there for the launching of baby. Indeed some even assist during labor and delivery (cutting the cord). Hats off to them!
If we think of a pregancy as "WE" (both mother & father) its far healthier.
Birth is a miracle not easily forgotten.

Maam I realize that things have changed, I was merely pointing out that it is the mother that does the hard part. My choice of language may have been blunt but I find that with Bill one needs be that way. It is something like the farmer who was beating the mule on the head with a 2 x 4. He said he was not being cruel, he was only trying to get its attention.

I attended the birth of my one of brother's last two children, sadly neither one lived more than a few days. But that was in a Gatholic hospital and they did not allow the fathers in the delivery room. I also helped lower that tiny coffin into the grave, something I never want to expeience again.

I guess I come on strongly because I find that women are not given the rights they deserve here. It is rather odd, when Florence told her friends she was about to marry a Canadian they said "Why, they are all male chauvinists". The fact is that I really did not know what the word meant until I had been here for a couple of years.

Our relationship is probably odd, in 29 years we have had at most five argumants. One friend remarked that "Florence sees sunshine in strange places" but all I can say is that she is my life.