Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site tymix.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!oliveb!tymix!whitehur From: whitehur@tymix.UUCP (Pamela K. Whitehurst) Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: Re: My first baby Message-ID: <480@tymix.UUCP> Date: Sun, 11-Aug-85 23:21:45 EDT Article-I.D.: tymix.480 Posted: Sun Aug 11 23:21:45 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 15-Aug-85 21:11:31 EDT References: <3484@cornell.UUCP> <472@tymix.UUCP> <547@mit-vax.UUCP> Reply-To: whitehur@tymix.UUCP (Pamela K. Whitehurst) Organization: Tymnet Inc., Cupertino CA Lines: 30 Summary: Father's role in childrearing In article <547@mit-vax.UUCP> csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) writes: >In an age where the wife can leave the home, and baby, to pursue a >career, I think it a bit sexist to insinuate the father cannot make >childrearing descisions. > What I meant to express what that a father does not have an inalienable right to dictate childrearing procedures. Neither does a mother. My comments were made to assure Susan that she does not have to submit to the fathers method of childrearing if she decides to marry her childs father. Of course a father can make childrearing decisions. Childrearing is not a sex-linked trait. And since it isn't parents need to find an acceptable way of resolving disagreements before they arrive. >In the case of an unwed mother, I don't see how the father can claim >such rights, but a married couple assumes a FATHER as well as a mother. > I think an unwed father should have the same right as a divorced father. Including the right to request custody. >In any case, I would hope both parents would share the responsibility as >well as the rewards of raising children. > Keep that thought. -- PKW hplabs!oliveb!tymix!whitehur