With Father’s Day right around the corner and in light of CW’s continuing fascination with the evolution of the modern dad, I thought this nugget on childbirth from the Wall Street Journal timely and appropriate.
The money quote: “On the whole, it is not a show to watch.” You got that right, Doc.
"There is something unwell about a society that requires fathers to pretend to find beauty in effaced cervixes, episiotomies and the bloody show -- but then allows them to skip out on the rearing of the child."
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For all her faults, at least Octomom, with IVF, spared the father having to have such sights burned for eternity into his mind...eightfold.
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