Papa's got the baby blues: French men yearn for pregnancy

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[BenLurkin]

PARIS (AFP) - Maybe it's that mix of hot Latin blood and cool Cartesian intellect, or perhaps is just a collective guilty conscience.

Whatever the cause, nearly 40 percent of French men told a recent survey that they would, science permitting, like to become pregnant.

The poll, conducted by Ipsos and published in the current issue of Children Magazine (Enfants Magazine), showed that 38 percent of the more than 500 fathers of children up to seven interviewed by phone said they would like, or would have liked, to be the one to carry their offspring to term.

A slightly higher percentage of women respondents liked the idea of their spouses taking on the nine-month job.

The magazine did not compare the overlap -- whether women whose mates expressed deep maternal yearnings would welcome the prospect.

The survey carried other signs that parenting is not what it used to be in the country that spawned one of the alltime feminist classics, Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex".

Eighty-six percent of the fathers queried said they were ready "to take a paternity leave of several months to live their fatherhood more intensely," provided it caused "minimal financial impact."

And 71 percent said they were prepared to "take a year-long sabbatical" or "request to work part time."

[BenLurkin]

It explains so very much.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Frogs are so weird.

[My2Cents]

I think it was Bob Newhart who said that if men had been created with breasts, we'd never get anything done.

[OB1kNOb]

French girlie-men. I bet they squat to #1.

[My2Cents]

40% of French men are girly-men.

[exile]

"Whatever the cause, nearly 40 percent of French men told a recent survey that they would, science permitting, like to become pregnant."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Stupid frogs. Havin babies is for chicks.

[ColoCdn]

Kinda knew that the new 'metrosexual' French would eventually get to the point that they took on more than just outward femininity.

Where are the barbarians at the gates when you need them?

Eric the Red, come back!! All is forgiven.

[ElkGroveDan]

My clock is ticking

[BenLurkin]

Yes, "Sitzpinklers" is the German word for them.

[SittinYonder]

The frogs make it too easy, don't they?

[conservatrice]

Wow. Fortunately, my French husband is pretty happy to leave the gestating to me.

[dead]

they would, science permitting, like to become pregnant

I doubt they need any help from science.

[Kitten1]

To the 40% of Frenchmen, you have good news and bad news.

The good news is, you're halfway there.

The bad new is, you're halfway there and we knew years ago.

[golfisnr1]

Not me! I couldn't get past morning sickness.

If men could get pregnant there would be a lot more abortions.

Who would think to ask this question?

Amazing!

[SF Republican]

Eighty-six percent of the fathers queried said they were ready "to take a paternity leave of several months to live their fatherhood more intensely," I had the great fortune of being fired just after our little girl was born. I got a nice severance package and spent the next six months being a house daddy to her and our (at the time) 2 year old son; it was by far the greatest time I have ever experienced in my life.

[hobbes1]

Whatever the cause, nearly 40 percent of French men told a recent survey that they would, science permitting, like to become pregnant.

Lets face it. French Men just want German men to put them on their backs, and pin their ankles behind their ears...

Oooh Oui,Mine Herr!

[Constitution Day]

It's not for nothing that couvade is a French word.

[Millee]

[Leatherneck_MT]

Makes one wonder if you woke up on an alien planet somewhere. These people are sick.