UK Sun: More paternity rights

Submitted by anthony on Tue, 2009-04-14 00:43

Article here. Excerpt:

'As the parents bond over their new baby, the scene is broken by the midwife carefully declaring that it's time for daddy to leave.

This is the scene in maternity wards up and down the UK.

86 per cent of men now attend the birth of their child, but in a large number of hospitals, as soon as visiting time is over dads are asked to leave.

Duncan Fisher, 47, director of dad.info, thinks that this practise needs to change.

Duncan says: "When my first child was born 12 years ago I was asked to leave at the end of visiting hours. I was completely baffled; I wasn't expecting to be told to leave at all.

"My wife wasn't too upset, so I quietly left."'

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Once you and the wife are at home rearing the child, the wife herself will tell you to get lost, if you try to do so much as change a diaper. (then she will complain you never help with the kids. She will be sitting on a fouton in the Florida room calling you at work to complain, while you are losing your sanity working 11-hour days.)

Such is the oppression of women.

-ax

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Submitted by axolotl on Tue, 2009-04-14 10:56

I had both my babies in the US and had quite the opposite experience.

Both my babies were C-section, and the hospital was quite accommodating to the father. He was there during the operation/birth and in the recovery room they had a 'father's chair' that converted into a nice bed and they had extra pillow and blankets for him.

The nurses even brought him a sandwich

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Submitted by Kris on Tue, 2009-04-14 22:39