Is it really fair that women should have to suffer excruciating pain while men get to just sit back and have a beer? Also, should fathers have to carry a big weight around, strapped to the front of them for 9 months? Maybe also make them take pills to induce nausea in the mornings, make their ankles bloat up, and make them have to run to the bathroom every ten minutes.
2006-07-25 23:31:42 · 13 answers · asked by I Know Nuttin 5 in Family & Relationships ➔ Family
I love this question!!! And as much fun as it sounds, I'm going to have to say no. As the mother of four kids, (including one set of twins), my husband, (a former Marine) would not be able to handle what a woman goes through during pregnancy, delivery, and let's not forget breastfeeding!!!!
2006-07-25 23:36:22 · answer #1 · answered by bratsk13 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't volunteer or wish that on anyone. Women make a huge sacrifice to have children. It's a wonder any woman get pregnant. I guess it's a dumbfounded situation couples get into where there's no turning back. I recommend all fathers are present during the pregnancy and birth. I wonder looking back how helpful I was. If you young men out there are reading this, here's a message. "You can't do enough to help your wife through this, so plan on being busy the whole time."
2006-07-25 23:40:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, men are not able to suffer such things, and are surely not able to suffer through labor and delivery. They simply don't have what it takes to survive through such difficult and painful things. They aren't made to. However, they will never know the joy of watching their child nourish themselves at their breasts. They will not know the feeling of looking at that child and knowing that they already know it, because it was actually INSIDE their very body. And although they can become very close with their child, they will never have quite the same bond as the child and the mother. The mother, who went through all those things, suffered to bring that child into this world. The mother who, from time before the child was born, began to love and care for it. The mother who shared her body, giving all that she had to offer freely, without condition, with joy, and a certain amount of pride, would stand before the gates of hell itself to keep that child safe! No, men can't be held to the same standards of women. They simply aren't made to be able to withstand the rigors of childbirth, and that's just how it is. It's not a sexist thing, it's a fact of nature. Men have their own bonds with children. But they are just not capable of creating the same type of bonds that a mother's suffering creates. Poor man, missing out on so very much, and knowing that he can't do anything that actually makes up for it. No amount of carrying around extra weight, or nausea inducing pills, or bladder pressure will ever create in them the special ability of a mother to bond with her child, even before it's born. That, yes, that is their torture.
ps: this is from a female, who has no children
2006-07-25 23:49:35 · answer #3 · answered by private_treasure1226 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My labor was so painful, epidural didn't work. I was crying, my husband was crying cause of the agony. For hours! Finally, I had a c-section.
Men and women have different duties/responsibilities in life.
women: We carry, give birth, and care for the children. ((Carrying children is 9 months, and labor is for a day-mine was 2 days though))
Men: Work and carry the responsibility of supporting his family for years to come. That is a huge weight to carry around itself. That alone is a difficult task to carry around. Daddies are always much funner to play with, and dads tend to take on that duty well also.
No, fathers shouldn't be tortured for dads have a huge job for them after the baby is born. Being pregnant is a blessing though, yes the body swells along with the aches, pains, sickness...but when the baby starts moving around inside your body...it's the neatest thing.
2006-07-26 02:15:54 · answer #4 · answered by wondering 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, because a father's role is different than that of a mother. Indeed, I despise those lazy brutes (usually rednecks) who just sit back and allow their wives to suffer. A husband ought to care for his wife with all his effort and make it his primary objective to please her and make her job easier. He should support the family in whatever way possible. So the guy should always be around to maybe massage, guide, or feed his tired wife. And he ought to be really scared yet comforting when she goes through childbirth; indeed, he will be excited when the baby is born, and should continue to be nice to the lady and the baby. Remember that a husband and wife are supposed to be one soul in two bodies.
2006-07-25 23:38:43 · answer #5 · answered by Captain Hero 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, that would solve all the problems. Let's think of other ways to get men and women to hate each other. Then life will be wonderful for everyone.
2006-07-25 23:34:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What are you talking about? Of course fathers suffer while mothers are giving birth. We have to put up with all their screaming, complaining, yelling, etc. while they're in birth.
2006-07-25 23:38:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most women would love to see a man suffer... Oh yeah, that is what marriage was designed for... ;)
2006-07-25 23:34:07 · answer #8 · answered by Forlorn Hope 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually its kind of sad that men will never feel a life growing inside them.....being pregnant twice and giving birth twice are 2 of my fondest memories
2006-07-25 23:38:35 · answer #9 · answered by well_hell_is_this_name_taken 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who are we to decide?
Im sure the mother will torture the father if she thinks he really deserves it.
2006-07-25 23:35:43 · answer #10 · answered by Ron K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋