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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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posted on
06/09/2005 12:25:44 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
It explains so very much.
2
posted on
06/09/2005 12:26:05 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: BenLurkin
Frogs are so weird.
3
posted on
06/09/2005 12:26:16 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Drug prohibition laws spawned the runaway federal health care monopoly and fund terrorism.)
To: BenLurkin
I think it was Bob Newhart who said that if men had been created with breasts, we'd never get anything done.
4
posted on
06/09/2005 12:27:52 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
To: BenLurkin
French girlie-men. I bet they squat to #1.
5
posted on
06/09/2005 12:28:18 PM PDT
by
OB1kNOb
(Excrementum Occurum)
To: BenLurkin
40% of French men are girly-men.
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posted on
06/09/2005 12:28:54 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
To: BenLurkin
"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.
7
posted on
06/09/2005 12:29:13 PM PDT
by
exile
(Exile - Helen Thomas tried to lure me into her Gingerbread House.)
To: BenLurkin
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.
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posted on
06/09/2005 12:29:23 PM PDT
by
ColoCdn
(Neco eos omnes, Deus suos agnoset)
To: BenLurkin
My clock is ticking
9
posted on
06/09/2005 12:29:59 PM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(I'm sick and tired of being sicked and tired!)
To: OB1kNOb
Yes, "Sitzpinklers" is the German word for them.
10
posted on
06/09/2005 12:30:01 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: eyespysomething
The frogs make it too easy, don't they?
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posted on
06/09/2005 12:31:28 PM PDT
by
SittinYonder
(Tancredo and I wanna know what you believe)
To: BenLurkin
Wow. Fortunately, my French husband is pretty happy to leave the gestating to me.
To: BenLurkin
they would, science permitting, like to become pregnant I doubt they need any help from science.
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posted on
06/09/2005 12:32:57 PM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: BenLurkin
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.
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posted on
06/09/2005 12:33:15 PM PDT
by
Kitten1
(For those needing their Byrd fix, "Where's my adversary? I say, where's my worthy adversary?")
To: BenLurkin
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!
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posted on
06/09/2005 12:34:14 PM PDT
by
golfisnr1
(Democrats are like roaches, hard to get rid of.>)
To: BenLurkin
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.
To: BenLurkin
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!
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posted on
06/09/2005 12:34:28 PM PDT
by
hobbes1
(Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you dont have to...." ;)
To: BenLurkin
It's not for nothing that
couvade is a French word.
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
06/09/2005 12:34:47 PM PDT
by
Millee
(So you're a feminist......isn't that cute??)
To: BenLurkin
Makes one wonder if you woke up on an alien planet somewhere. These people are sick.
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posted on
06/09/2005 12:35:01 PM PDT
by
Leatherneck_MT
(3-7-77 (No that's not a Date))
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