Posted on 06/09/2005 12:25:44 PM PDT by 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."
We always knew the french were Pu.....
kittens.
BWAHAHAHA! More like sitztinklers, eh wot?
These frog girlie-men would change their minds in a hurry when the morning sickness started (and maybe continued for the whole nine months). Then there are the stretch marks on their six-pack abs. And the coup de gras -- hemorrhoids and episiotomy!
What in the wide, wide world of sports is going on here?
The French are on a roll. Did you catch that article yesterday where the French marketing consultants declared that "macho male" was dead?
Please ping this to Mr. H-, he might get a kick out it.
BWUAHAHAHA! That's so French! Good one.
I'm waiting for Ted Kennedy's water to break.
I'd guess most of them were pulling the pollster's leg.
Taggart? Is that you?
French and men in the same sentence is an oxymoron.
"that they would, science permitting, like to become pregnant"
Bend over Pepe, I'll see what I can do..
The French have just screwed up the time-honored equation-Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus! Only 60% of French men are from Mars, and I don't wanna know about the rest.
Heck who wouldn't want to take a paternity leave of several months to live their fatherhood more intensely," provided it caused "minimal financial impact
everyone wants their cake and to eat it too.
The other 40% are from Uranus.
I am pro-life but if I got pregnant it'd mean instant abortion and intense therapy for me!
I thought it was the silliest, gayest thing I'd EVER heard.
LOL, these frogs remind me of a certain group of folks from Kansas City.
You got that right. As my sister said "if I could have gotten my kids by ordering them from a catalog and having them Fedex'ed to the house, I would have!"
LQ
Well, by GAWD, LET THEM.
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