And fathers as birth assistants
The astute and persistent Chris Wallace of Fox New asked Obama's campaign manager David Plouff whether he was planning to be at his child's birth on election day, if that happens to be the day of the delivery. Plouff says: "Absolutely." Wallace goes on to say: "Boy, there are a lot of people in the Beltway are going to question your priorities, David."
There was a time when such a question wasn't even entertained. No father would relinquish an important (public) engagement to sit at his wife's hospital bed to help deliver his child.
Of course, this is the other side of the coin where women now (enter Sarah Palin) will prolong delivery (by what miracle, I wonder) to make scheduled speeches as full-time careerists.
If women can act like men, why not men act like women? In the mean time, who exactly is running the country?