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Quotation by Anonymous Father
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as quoted in Women and Their Fathers, by Victoria Secunda (1992)Ourselves and Our Children (1978)Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Women's Health Book Collective (1978)quoted in When Men are Pregnant by Jerrold Lee Shapiro, ch. 15 (1987)Raising a Daughter by Jeanne Elium and Don Elium (1994)
Sometimes my wife complains that she's overwhelmed with work and just can't take one of the kids, for example, to a piano lesson. I'll offer to do it for her, and then she'll say, "No, I'll do it." We have to negotiate how much I trespass into that mother role—it's not given up easily.
Anonymous Father. As quoted in Women and Their Fathers, by Victoria Secunda, ch. 3 (1992).
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