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So You've Decided
to
Have Children
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time she needed her husband the most, she went through this
experience alone.
What a shame!
Fortunately, many in the medical profession have seen
the value-even the necessity-of having the husband
present. Now birthing centers are commonplace in much of
the developed world. Husbands and wives plan for childbirth
together by attending classes, seeing films and listening to
doctors and midwives explain the marvels of human birth
and the joy of being together.
And that, at last, is the way it ought to be.
Bringing new life into the world should be the greatest
sharing experience of all.
Child Rearing Is Sharing, Too
Somewhere along the line this modern society has taken
many wrong turns. The mistaken idea has developed that Dad
should go out and earn the livingand leave the children to Mom.
While it is true that husbands usually provide the major
source of ecqnomic support for the family, it is not true that
wives and mothers are solely responsible for the children.
Research has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that
parental love, care and touching-from fathers as well as moth–
ers-are vital to the well-being of a child.
Psychologists have discovered what they ought to have
known all along. The personality and temperament of a child
is firmly established in the first few years of life.
If
there is ever
a time when parents ought to spend the most time and effort
with their children, it is during these precious early years.
And that does not mean Mom alone. Fathers have an
equal responsibility
in
the care of babies and children. After
all, what is wrong with a father changing diapers, rocking the
baby
to
sleep and sitting up when the baby is sick?
Having babies is indeed the ultimate sharing.