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Posted on 6/1/26 at 9:51 am to Dire Wolf
Boomers did have to work
Posted on 6/1/26 at 9:54 am to FliesByNight
quote:Please remind us poor ole millennial which generation started that?
I mean it makes sense. As more decades went by where the feminist movement was poisoning women's minds that motherhood and raising the kids is lame and that they need to be boss babes, the dads would obviously have to start contributing a lot more to raising the children.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 9:59 am to Dire Wolf
No wonder they can't afford houses. They are babysitting kids all the time.
SMH
SMH
Posted on 6/1/26 at 10:02 am to Dire Wolf
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soyllennial
HILARIOUS. Instead of Mi, you put in Soy. Ha. So funny.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 10:03 am to Dire Wolf
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Darby Saxbe
Wow. -hat tip-
Posted on 6/1/26 at 10:21 am to Dire Wolf
The writer is an idiot. Spending time with your kids has always been good fatherhood. Men have always been expected to teach their kids things and take them hunting, fishing, etc.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 10:24 am to DesScorp
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The writer is an idiot. Spending time with your kids has always been good fatherhood. Men have always been expected to teach their kids things and take them hunting, fishing, etc.
yeah lets look at how boys turn out when raised entirely by females
Posted on 6/1/26 at 10:28 am to Dire Wolf
I think this is a mixed bag thing
Men spending more time with their kids - objectively good
Men spending more time with their kids because women are working more - probably less objectively good
Men spending more time with their kids because families have become incredibly child-centric - mixed
The last one will be controversial. I'm personally in the middle on it. I think it's good that children probably have warmer, closer relationships with their parents than any time in history. I think it's questionable whether letting kid stuff dictate family life (devoting huge swaths of energy to kids sports, for example) is a net positive.
Men spending more time with their kids - objectively good
Men spending more time with their kids because women are working more - probably less objectively good
Men spending more time with their kids because families have become incredibly child-centric - mixed
The last one will be controversial. I'm personally in the middle on it. I think it's good that children probably have warmer, closer relationships with their parents than any time in history. I think it's questionable whether letting kid stuff dictate family life (devoting huge swaths of energy to kids sports, for example) is a net positive.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 10:34 am to Ingeniero
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and drink whiskey
Why can’t we do this while hanging out with our kids?
Posted on 6/1/26 at 10:37 am to Pettifogger
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I think it's questionable whether letting kid stuff dictate family life (devoting huge swaths of energy to kids sports, for example) is a net positive.
Me and my wife had this conversation this weekend. She was stressing about what activities to fill the kids days up during summer.
I told her that our parents never once stressed about this. Our parents never once scheduled "free play". It was all free play.
But I also get that our parents didn't have to worry about the constant pull of screens.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 10:38 am to DesScorp
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The writer is an idiot. Spending time with your kids has always been good fatherhood. Men have always been expected to teach their kids things and take them hunting, fishing, etc.
My boomer dad and all my friend’s boomer dads spent lots of time with their kids. I don’t remember this ever being an issue. Maybe they didn’t wipe our asses when we were babies compared to now? Idk
Posted on 6/1/26 at 10:47 am to Salmon
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Me and my wife had this conversation this weekend. She was stressing about what activities to fill the kids days up during summer.
I told her that our parents never once stressed about this. Our parents never once scheduled "free play". It was all free play.
But I also get that our parents didn't have to worry about the constant pull of screens.
I think the right answer is truly "a little of both."
Are my kids the center of my world? Yes. Do I want them to know it? Ehhhh. I want them to know how much we love them. But I also don't want them to internalize the idea that the family revolves around them. I think many parents, including us and including parents doing good jobs, are probably putting their kids on a pedestal in a way that can make raising grounded, grateful children more challenging.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 10:49 am to Pettifogger
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think this is a mixed bag thing
Men spending more time with their kids - objectively good
Men spending more time with their kids because women are working more - probably less objectively good
Men spending more time with their kids because families have become incredibly child-centric - mixed
This is good copy.
I spend more time with my kids than my dad did, despite my wife and I having a similar family set up that my parents did. In reality, my wife works less than my mother did. But I do more with the kids than my dad did - that's a choice, and one I'm glad I made.
But, this can easily backslide into building your world around your kids (hello, travel ball), and that's dangerous for empty-nesting. My wife and I don't do as good of a job as hanging out without the kids as my parents did, for example.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 10:49 am to Mushroom1968
Boomers had the highest divorce rate of any generation so there are probably a lot of single mother households with limited father involvement dragging down the average for them.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 10:53 am to GRTiger
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Boomers had the highest divorce rate of any generation
Gen X has a higher divorce rate. Also boomers have the highest number of years and people than other generations. Plus more got married and have been married longer which increases odds of divorce. Saying that, and I’m Gen X, we still have a higher divorce rate than boomers.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 10:58 am to Dire Wolf
Pretty simple explanation. Most married households both have to hold full time jobs to make ends meet. So of course Dad is gonna do more childcare.
Posted on 6/1/26 at 11:00 am to Pettifogger
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Men spending more time with their kids because families have become incredibly child-centric - mixed
The need to constantly "stimulate" your children may turn out to be a negative.
A child-centric home often means:
no adult time
no adult priorities
no adult space
constant emotional management
Burned-out parents can’t show up as the calm, steady leaders kids need.
This post was edited on 6/1/26 at 11:02 am
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