Thursday, October 26, 2006

Generation Gap?

Lawrence was incorrigible today. He says he was a bystander in his son’s upbringing, preferring to leave the child-rearing to his wife. He says this is because the purpose of parenthood (for the man) is to ‘grease the road to a little tail’ by giving the woman what she wants: children.

He chose to accomplish this by adding only sperm and money into the equation – he feels that this money is his gift of time to the child. Time = Work = Money. His argument is that his wife gave of her time by actually raising ‘the boy’ and so it’s pretty much even, and that he does not owe her a debt of gratitude for raising this little citizen into adulthood with little to no collaboration.

Fascinating…

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think fatherhood can be very rewarding and it's very sad that he wasn't part of that. I'm sure he will regret it at some point...and sooner rather than later.

Fri Oct 27, 01:22:00 AM  
Blogger Do said...

Wow. Interesting indeed.
I'm betting that knock-em-up Larry didn't have a close relationship with his Dad. I don't think it's generational - people learn from experience and example. I just hope that Lawrence's offspring had a decent male role model somewhere!

Fri Oct 27, 01:24:00 AM  

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