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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Germany
KEYWORDS: france; girlymen; oolala; sissies
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To: Pessimist

hahaa.a.. oh, that was evil...hahahahaha.a.


41 posted on 06/09/2005 12:58:58 PM PDT by Hi Heels (Guns kill and cause crime? Dang, mine must be malfunctioning....)
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To: andyk
"...these frogs remind me of a certain group of folks from Kansas City..."

You mean they are a nation of Lily von Shtupp's ?

42 posted on 06/09/2005 12:59:55 PM PDT by OB1kNOb (Excrementum Occurum)
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To: OB1kNOb

ROTFLMAO!!!


43 posted on 06/09/2005 1:00:36 PM PDT by Straight8 (I am unique, just like everyone else.)
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To: BenLurkin

Whatever. I seriously doubt that French men (or most men) for that matter could deal with morning sickness, joint pain, pelvic floor pain, stretch marks, and of course labor or worse, a c-section. Most men I know become big babies when they get a cold!


44 posted on 06/09/2005 1:01:46 PM PDT by Aggie Mama
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To: Constitution Day

Sounds like that book is already paying for itself.


45 posted on 06/09/2005 1:02:01 PM PDT by OB1kNOb (Excrementum Occurum)
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To: OB1kNOb

It's pretty funny, actually.


46 posted on 06/09/2005 1:03:24 PM PDT by Constitution Day (Burger-Eating War Monkey)
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To: Straight8

Thanks for the set up.


47 posted on 06/09/2005 1:04:06 PM PDT by OB1kNOb (Excrementum Occurum)
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To: Straight8

Maybe this is why they have tampon machine's in French men's rooms.


48 posted on 06/09/2005 1:05:31 PM PDT by Callahan
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To: My2Cents
I think it was Bob Newhart who said that if men had been created with breasts, we'd never get anything done.


49 posted on 06/09/2005 1:06:36 PM PDT by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: Constitution Day

I scanned some of the pages from your link.
It does look entertaining.


50 posted on 06/09/2005 1:07:08 PM PDT by OB1kNOb (Excrementum Occurum)
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To: BenLurkin
Everything goes back to Monty Python.

Judith: Well why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?
Loretta: I want to have babies.
Reg: You want to have babies?
Loretta: It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them.
Reg: But you can't have babies.
Loretta: Don't you oppress me.
Reg: I'm not oppressing you, Stan. You haven't got a womb. Where's the foetis going to gestate? You going to keep it in a box?
--------[Loretta starts crying.]
Judith: Here. I've got an idea. Suppose you agree that he can't actually have babies, not having a womb, which is nobody's fault... not even the Roman's, but that he can have the right to have babies.
--------[This seems to satisfy him.]
Francis: Good idea, Judith. We shall fight the oppressors for your right to have babies, brother. Sister, sorry.
Reg: What's the point?
Francis: What?
Reg: What's the point of fighting for his right to have babies when he can't have babies?
Francis: It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression.
Reg: Symbolic of his struggle against reality.

51 posted on 06/09/2005 1:10:03 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Republicans and Democrats no longer exist. There are only Fabian and revolutionary socialists.)
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To: OB1kNOb

"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.'"

Well no kidding. If I could take several months off and still get paid most of my salary I would take that deal in a second. I really doubt however, that these guys would be spending most of that time with their kids.


52 posted on 06/09/2005 1:10:18 PM PDT by Steelerfan
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To: Hank Rearden

Oh man. You just had to, did you! :-)


53 posted on 06/09/2005 1:17:52 PM PDT by My2Cents
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To: Hank Rearden

Is that the international sign for "No" across the front of his trunks?

54 posted on 06/09/2005 1:20:45 PM PDT by My2Cents
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To: Steelerfan

Where do I sign up? I'd love to "live my fatherhood more intensely".....uh, that doesn't mean I have to wear a mannery gland does it?


55 posted on 06/09/2005 1:28:40 PM PDT by OB1kNOb (Excrementum Occurum)
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To: OB1kNOb

Happy to oblige, ya done good!


56 posted on 06/09/2005 1:33:13 PM PDT by Straight8 (I am unique, just like everyone else.)
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To: Hank Rearden

Funny, he doesn't look French.


57 posted on 06/09/2005 1:34:59 PM PDT by Straight8 (I am unique, just like everyone else.)
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To: KarlInOhio

That hits the nail right on the head!


58 posted on 06/09/2005 1:35:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: Hank Rearden

That pic cries out for a caption contest!


59 posted on 06/09/2005 1:40:07 PM PDT by Straight8 (I am unique, just like everyone else.)
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To: Straight8

ORCA survives on land!!!


60 posted on 06/09/2005 3:49:15 PM PDT by bfree (PC is BS)
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