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TIL that millennial dads are spending 3 times as much times with their kids than their fathers spent with them. Back in 1982, 43% of fathers admitted they'd never changed a diaper. Today, that number (www.mother.ly)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's crazy to me just how much praise I got from my mother in law when I would immediately change my newborn's diaper or really do anything my wife had asked when we brought the baby home. I signed up for literally all of this when I got married and we decided to have kids.

What a wild world we live in in which doing the absolute bare minimum to support your significant other and your child is met with praise.