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2018-01-26 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Ground breaking Pew study - U.S. Dads Say They Don't Spend Enough Time With Their Kids

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-01-26 02:49|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Regret is the lot of working parents, and most fathers are not stay-at-home dads. But that just means that fathers have to work on quality rather than quantity, being present and involved when home, not being just the “fun dad” or the exhausted one.

My sympathies for those fathers unwillingly divorced, and thereby separated from their children. But I admit to having no sympathy whatsoever for those who did not marry their baby mamas, who then reciprocated the lack of commitment. It is my understanding that in general such gentlemen fade from their children’s lives about the time the kids start school, making the regret a good deal less convincing.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-01-26 10:28|| 2018-01-26 10:28|| Front Page Top

#2 they overwhelmingly cite work obligations

Easy enough to resolve if they reduce their standard of living and take a lower paying reduced stress part time job as some have been forced to do.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-01-26 12:33|| 2018-01-26 12:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Many should, but won't, cite the overwhelming debt servitude they willingly undertook.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-01-26 13:13|| 2018-01-26 13:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Whenever I'd ride with my step-dad to various work sites, whenever we'd pass a cemetery he would recite a memento mori.

"No indispensable men here."
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Posted by OregonGuy 2018-01-26 13:14|| http://oregonguythinks.blogspot.com 2018-01-26 13:14|| Front Page Top

#5 "No indispensable men here."

One of my favorites, a humility peg. Cemeteries are an interesting study. Ever notice residents of the older sections seldom get.... flowers ?

Posted by Besoeker 2018-01-26 13:38|| 2018-01-26 13:38|| Front Page Top

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