The caretaking has to be done. "Somebody's got to be the mommy." Individually, we underestimate this need, and as a society we mak...e inadequate provision for it. Women take up the slack, making the need invisible as we step in to fill it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not only do our wives need support, but our children need our deep involvement in their lives. If this period [the early years] of... primitive needs and primitive caretaking passes without us, it is lost forever. We can be involved in other ways, but never again on this profoundly intimate level.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This [new] period of parenting is an intense one. Never will we know such responsibility, such productive and hard work, such pote...ntial for isolation in the caretaking role and such intimacy and close involvement in the growth and development of another human being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »