http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061129/OPINION01/611290344/1035/OPINION&template=printart So many columnists are asking this question recently.
2006-11-29 18:34:15 · 6 answers · asked by Alex 2 in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
http://momsquawk.wordpress.com/2006/11/27/are-old-dads-a-health-hazard/#comment-11302
2006-11-29 18:36:23 · update #1
Unfortunately most woman trying to get pregnant don't even think to ask the doctor about what the male does and how it affects the sperm. It is just not something people worry about. I did but they said nothing about coffee. What I was told was he needed to treat himself like he was trying to get pregnant too. Good diet exercise and all of that stuff. There are so many pregnancy's unplanned so how do you know what either sex had done before conception? Most woman don't think about the sperm except for its power of baby making. Would be a good idea for an addition in the sex ed classes at school. This does need to be brought out more. You asked a great question.
2006-11-29 21:07:48 · answer #1 · answered by melkhel 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I did not follow the link, but I want to answer your question anyway.
The problem is, with men the strictly biological role is over long before the child is born. Nine months before. Whatever emotional, moral, economic and otherwise real role a father has, the strictly biological is not something that matters once it has been done. Aside from being able to predict certain disease vulnerabilities, his significance is over at that time.
But of course, the role of a father post-conception is rather more than what a test tube could do. And biological in the sense of being concerned for the child's physical welfare is certainly real. There is also a "biological" element in the most important thing any father can do for his child: love the child's mother.
2006-11-30 02:41:25 · answer #2 · answered by auntb93again 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Before attention is to be paid to something, it must first be understood. The fact that these same columnists are pushing women out of the home and into the work-place is clear indication that they don't have clue #1 as to how a family should function in order to be successful. It's going to be a long time before the media has enough collective smarts to discuss men's role as a father. Us fathers are going to have to do what we've always known how to do before the media comes along and tells us we need to be changing diapers. The role of father and mother need to be discussed together...not as two separate issues. But the media has been too busy trying to twist what has traditionally been a mother's role into something unworkable in the real world. Now it want's to address fathers too? You'll forgive me if I don't bother to listen.
2006-11-30 10:32:08 · answer #3 · answered by fishman 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because it's not politically correct. Besides many feminists and others make a mint $ promoting women as superior and men as dogs.
To say that men have value in this society is to admit they have stolen something; fatherhood.
I've fought for years just to enforce the right to talk to my son. No one cares about the fathers
we are just a paycheck who help foot the bill for all the feminists who $$ from stealing children and breaking up families.
2006-11-30 04:58:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I DID read the link...that is very interesting information. And, I wonder, as well.
2006-11-30 03:09:04 · answer #5 · answered by wendy g 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because women have decided that they only need men for one thing. After that they get rid of them.
2006-11-30 02:39:50 · answer #6 · answered by King Midas 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋