Posted on 06/10/2005 8:33:07 AM PDT by Sthitch
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."
This was posted yesterday, but I'm not complaining about the repost. Another day of comments about French girlie-men is all right by me.
40-percent, ay? Well, that explains a lot. No wonder France is in a freefall.
Girlie men.
Gives new meaning to the liberal argument for "equal access" to conception, justifiying the mandating of coverage of contraception by health insurance policies, and forcing pharmacists to fill prescriptions for the morning after pill.
Nice to know that at least some indigenous Europeans want kids.
They've already got the irrational outbursts of tears thing down. < ducks>
LMAO!!! This falls right in line with what we've thought about them all along!
What do you expect from the country that gave us mimes.
Stan/Loretta: I want to be a woman... from now on I want you all to call me Loretta.
Reg: What???
Stan/Loretta: It's my right as a man.
Judith: Well why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?
Stan/Loretta: I want to have babies.
Reg: You want to have babies?
Stan/Loretta: It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them.
Hah. Talk is cheap. If they had any idea of what pregnancy and childbirth are like. . .
"LMAO!!! This falls right in line with what we've thought about them all along!"
No freaking kidding!!!
Well, they didn't get those accents from sucking on doorknobs!
Why not! They are women in every other way! It seems they should be allowed to experience the joys of pregnancy as well!
Well, there you have it. This is kinda like the superstring theory in physics--it explains so many things in one tidy package.
LOL!! I sooo agree! I bet they'd be changing their minds really fast by the end of the first trimester!
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