Shameful and sick!!
- Alex, London, UK, 23/7/2012 00:27
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I just don’t think most men are cut out to be stay-at-home-dads — and the consequences when it doesn’t work out can be devastating.

While the six months I spent with Sonny were rewarding in myriad ways, not only was I bored, lonely, and depressed, but my relationship with my partner was blighted by blazing rows and bickering, my libido dwindled and our sex life became non-existent.

The daily grind of feeding, changing, washing and folding started to make me feel like an exhausted housewife.

With every snuggle suit that was hung on the line to dry, a little piece of my masculinity blew away in the wind.

But what really hammered my self-confidence was the way other men reacted when I told them I was now a stay-at-home dad.

The shocking truth is, being a stay-at-home dad can have a terrible effect on relationships, as divorce lawyer Vanessa Lloyd Platt has witnessed.

Incredibly, she says that divorces where the man is a full-time dad have doubled in the last five years, and now account for 10 per cent of all marital break-ups.

Men are emotionally far less able to cope than women with the frustrations of full-time parenting. To men like me, who define themselves by their work, it is emasculating.

‘Men should only consider it if they are calm, flexible, put others first and have a very thick skin.’

I’d risen to editor of men’s magazine Loaded.

Only mugs get married in the UK and US. It's hard enough to cope with rampant female hypergamy unchecked by society in the West which indulges an entitlement pampered Princess attitude by default without unfair fembot divorce laws designed to favor the feminine imperative.

- John Smith, Hants, 3/8/2012 7:54 Rating 25

To be honest, I think all those things are a risk for any couple with a stay-at-home parent. Which is why a better work-life balance, for instance both people working part-time and splitting childcare is a winner for all concerned. But you try getting the Mail to see that.

So hang on, let me get this right - an arrangement was made that the child would be born and brought up by the female couple which happened and the child was brought up by them and they bonded. Then a few years down the line the sperm donors wife who is nothing to do with the child biologically or had any hand in bringing her up decides she wants to snatch the child and goes to court to try and take the child from the people who have brought her up and she has bonded with? And she is calling the female couple selfish? No matter what you think of same sex couples adopting the fact is that this woman tried to take this child of the only parents it knew on a whim. If she couldn't deal with it she should have sorted that with her husband before the donation happened rather than waiting till the child was here and suddenly deciding she couldn't live without a child which wasn't hers. She sounds unstable.
- Sally , Sheffield, United Kingdom, 16/9/2012 15:09
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why,oh why donate sperm.... it's not a loving relationship via a man and a woman... society is already messed up due to the anti-male, anti-family courts (or is that female biased courts)... it's time men started to wake up to the tyranny of women and not bow down to their every whim. Look at society now, you only have to look at how women are placed above men in law and society as a whole. Men are seen as walking wallets and sperm donors, men are seen as a deposable source of wealth for women... sick society and getting sicker by the minute. we as men really need to change, hopefully women will follow, yet i doubt it. men need to start seeing themselves as a worthy as women are.
- mehere , buxton, 16/9/2012 15:10
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... men need to start seeing themselves as a worthy as women are.

First world problems.
- LizM, Washington DC, United Kingdom, 22/11/2012 14:10
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